GitHub Actions disable run for forked repositories

May 13, 2026

Upon forking another project’s repository to make contributions, one might have enabled GitHub Actions for the fork. If there are scheduled actions, then GitHub Actions will keep running on the forked repository, which can consume resources and is probably not desired. The simplest solution is to disable GitHub Actions for the forked repository, which is done from the URL of this form:

https://github.com/<your-username>/<forked-repo-name>/settings/actions