ActivitySmith GitHub Action

The official ActivitySmith GitHub Action is now live on the GitHub Marketplace.

Connect your CI and deployment workflows directly to ActivitySmith so your team gets real-time updates on their mobile devices.

You can now:

Send push notifications from any workflow step.
Start, update, and end Live Activities as your pipeline progresses.

Push Notifications

For lightweight updates like deploy completed, build failed, or rollback started, send a push notification in a single step:

- name: Send push notification
  uses: ActivitySmithHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    action: send_push_notification
    api-key: ${{ secrets.ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY }}
    payload: |
      title: "ActivitySmith Deployment"
      message: "New release deployed to production."

This is a good fit for one-off alerts where you want immediate visibility but no ongoing activity timeline.

Live Activities

For long-running workflows, start the activity, post as many progress updates as needed, then end it when complete.

The start_live_activity step returns live_activity_id, which you pass into update/end steps.

- name: Start live activity
  id: start_activity
  uses: ActivitySmithHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    action: start_live_activity
    api-key: ${{ secrets.ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY }}
    payload: |
      content_state:
        title: "ActivitySmith API Deployment"
        subtitle: "ci: install & build"
        number_of_steps: 3
        current_step: 1
        type: "segmented_progress"

- name: Update live activity
  uses: ActivitySmithHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    action: update_live_activity
    api-key: ${{ secrets.ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY }}
    live-activity-id: ${{ steps.start_activity.outputs.live_activity_id }}
    payload: |
      content_state:
        title: "ActivitySmith API Deployment"
        subtitle: "ci: tests"
        current_step: 2

- name: End live activity
  uses: ActivitySmithHQ/[email protected]
  with:
    action: end_live_activity
    api-key: ${{ secrets.ACTIVITYSMITH_API_KEY }}
    live-activity-id: ${{ steps.start_activity.outputs.live_activity_id }}
    payload: |
      content_state:
        title: "ActivitySmith API Deployment"
        subtitle: "done"
        current_step: 3