# act
**Licence:** MIT | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/nektos/act
## Role
Run GitHub Actions locally
## Why it's here
Test a workflow before you push, on the machine in front of you, with the same syntax.
## Running it
CLI tool with no server component. Install it from the fetched source and run it in CI.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/act.tar.gz -C ./sources
```