How this differs from GitHub

The GitHub App connection handles repos and PRs. GitHub Actions is a separate opt-in toggle for workflow run data: pass/fail, flake, and duration. Those signals feed Insights (SDLC Insights CI Pipeline Insights, the leadership CI health widget, and the live delivery metrics that use workflow success). It uses the same Insights app, not a second install.

Actions does not grade Agentic Foundation. CI on change, CI runs build, CI runs tests, and CI static analysis stay setup checks under Continuous Integration: files in the repo, or credit from a linked CI templates repo. A red week does not open a gap on those rows. A green week does not mark a missing workflow as Met. The split is in Four CI questions.

If Connect GitHub shows Manage · Needs approval on an organization, an org owner accepts Actions (and related) read on that installation. Details: GitHub integration, Insights metrics setup.

You can turn Actions off without dropping GitHub entirely. Readiness setup scores and PR metrics keep working. CI health charts stop updating.

Prerequisites

GitHub must already be connected. If the Insights app still needs Actions read permission, Connect GitHub shows Manage · Needs approval on that org. Approve that or the toggle will not stick.

Turn it on

1. Connect GitHub first.
2. Settings → Integrations.
3. Make sure GitHub Actions is in your tech stack under CI/CD.
4. Connect or Enable.
5. Approve any permission upgrade GitHub asks for.
6. Status should show enabled with a recent sync time.

Turn it off

Disable from the same Integrations screen. GitHub stays connected; only CI metrics pause.