# Install actions-languageserver with Homebrew

Language server for GitHub Actions YAML files. Version 0.3.60 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-15.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:actions-languageserver
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install actions-languageserver
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:actions-languageserver
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.60
- **Source summary:** Language server for GitHub Actions YAML files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/actions/languageservices/tree/main/languageserver>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/actions/languageservices>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-15T03:57:39Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- actions-languageserver (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.3.60
## Project history and usage

actions-languageserver is GitHub's standalone Language Server Protocol host for the actions-languageservice package, providing editor diagnostics and completions for GitHub Actions workflow YAML.

### Project history

GitHub created the actions/languageservices repository in January 2023 for workflow and expression language services. The language server package exposes those services over LSP and can run as the actions-languageserver CLI using stdio.

### Adoption history

The package sits in the editor-tooling path for GitHub Actions authors: it can be embedded by VS Code-style clients, run from web workers, or configured in editors such as Neovim.

### How it is used

Users install @actions/languageserver, often globally, then run actions-languageserver --stdio. Advanced clients may pass initialization options including repository context, log level, experimental features, and an optional GitHub session token.

### Why package nerds care

It matters to package nerds because it turns GitHub Actions workflow validation into a reusable npm and Homebrew CLI rather than a feature locked inside a single editor extension.

### Timeline

- 2023: actions/languageservices repository created by GitHub.
- 2023: v0.2.0 release published.
- 2026: v0.3.58 release published, showing ongoing maintenance.

### Related projects

- The README names actions-languageservice, vscode-languageserver-node, the Language Server Protocol, and the browser playground as related pieces.

### Sources

- GitHub repository and releases API for repository and release chronology.
- Official languageserver README for purpose and usage.


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for actions-languageserver. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/nvim/lsp/actionsls.lua

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/actions-languageserver.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/actions-languageserver.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph