[cyberax]

> That looks like a useful trick, using an ephemeral instance to SSH into a failed CI action context.

Yup. And Tailscale even manages the SSH key provisioning.

> From what I can see, the loop stops when a user is logged in. Is this handled elsewhere?

The script does handle it. The `pgrep` succeeds (returns zero exit code) if there's a "login" process for user 'root' present, which is created when there's an active SSH session. If pgrep fails, then `break` runs and exits the loop.

Github then terminates the workflow and releases the runner.

[lioeters]

Ah I see what you mean, the loop keeps it alive until login is detected, and after that the machine is kept alive by the SSH session itself. Appreciated.