Developer builds GitHub Action that auto-explains CI failures in plain English

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A developer named Gopalcnepal has built explain-ci, a GitHub Action that reads failed CI job logs and automatically posts a plain-English explanation as a pull request comment. The tool runs as a separate job after a failure, since the failed job's log is only queryable via API once that job has completed. Users must supply their own API key, and the action supports multiple AI providers including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Groq, and Mistral, as well as self-hosted Ollama instances for privacy-sensitive environments. During development, the creator discovered two bugs — one involving over-aggressive log redaction and another stemming from test inputs that did not reflect real-world data. The project is open source under the MIT license and is available on the GitHub Marketplace.

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