policy quota_error ai_generated true

Error: This request was automatically failed because there are no more allowable minutes for this account

ID: policy/github-actions-minutes

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82%Fix Rate
85%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

GitHub Actions free tier minutes exhausted (2000 min/month for free, 3000 for Pro).

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Upgrade GitHub plan or purchase additional minutes 
    Settings > Billing > Actions > Spending limit
  2. 85% success Use self-hosted runners for long-running jobs 
    actions/runner on your own infrastructure

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Create workflows that cancel themselves to save minutes 70% fail

    Cancelled jobs still consume minutes for the time they ran.

  2. Move all CI to self-hosted immediately without planning 65% fail

    Self-hosted runners require infrastructure management and security hardening.