Certora Run GitHub Action

This repository contains a Certora Run GitHub Action that allows you to run Certora Prover on your contracts in parallel, receive the results as a comment on the pull request.

Usage

To use this action, add the Certora Run Application to the repository and add the following to your GitHub Actions workflow:

jobs:
  certora_run_submission:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      statuses: write
      pull-requests: write
      id-token: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Submit verification jobs to Certora Prover
        uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v2
        with:
          # Add your configurations as lines, each line is separated.
          # Specify additional options for each configuration by adding them after the configuration.
          configurations: |-
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --rule monotone --method "counter()"
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --rule invertible
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --method "counter()"
          solc-versions: 0.7.6 0.8.1
          job-name: "Verified Rules"
          certora-key: ${{ secrets.CERTORAKEY }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

This action will download all the specified Solidity versions, start certora-cli on every configuration file, and run the tests asynchronously. If one of the configurations fails to start, the action will be marked as failed, and all other jobs will continue to run.

Once all the tests are finished, Certora Run GitHub Application will mark the commit statuses as either success or failure, and comment on the pull request with the results.

Both solidity compilers and certora-cli dependencies are cached between runs.

Example:

name: Certora Prover Submission Workflow
description: |-
  This workflow submits Certora Prover jobs on the specified configurations. Once all
  jobs are successfully submitted, it will add a pending commit status to the commit.
  This status will be periodically updated with verification results of the jobs, along
  with the verification summary comment on the pull request.

  For more information, please visit https://github.com/certora/certora-run-action.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  certora_run_submission:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      statuses: write
      pull-requests: write
      id-token: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: recursive

      # (Optional) Add installation steps for your project
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm install

      # (Optional) Run Certora munge script
      - name: Certora munge
        run: ./certora/scripts/munge.sh

      # Submit verification jobs to Certora Prover
      - name: Submit verification jobs to Certora Prover
        uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v2
        with:
          # Add your configurations as lines, each line is separated.
          # Specify additional options for each configuration by adding them after the configuration.
          configurations: |-
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --rule monotone --method "counter()"
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --rule invertible
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf --method "counter()"
          solc-versions: 0.7.6 0.8.1
          job-name: "Verified Rules"
          certora-key: ${{ secrets.CERTORAKEY }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      # Submit verification jobs to Certora Solana Prover
      - name: Submit verification jobs to Certora Solana Prover
        uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v2
        with:
          working-directory: tests/solana
          # Specify solana ecosystem
          ecosystem: solana
          configurations: |-
            Default.conf
          job-name: "Verified Solana Rules"
          certora-key: ${{ secrets.CERTORAKEY }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      # Submit verification jobs to Certora Sui Prover
      - name: Submit verification jobs to Certora Sui Prover
        uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v2
        with:
          working-directory: tests/sui
          # Specify sui ecosystem
          ecosystem: sui
          configurations: |-
            Default.conf
          job-name: "Verified Sui Rules"
          certora-key: ${{ secrets.CERTORAKEY }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Permissions

This action requires the following permissions:

• contents: read - Clone the repository and read the configuration files.
• statuses: write - Write the status of the run to the GitHub UI.
• pull-requests: write - Write the run status & comment on the pull request.
• id-token: write - enables GitHub to request a signed OIDC token.

besides the permissions, the action requires the following secrets:

• CERTORAKEY - API key for Certora Prover.

Inputs

General inputs for:

• configurations - List of configuration files to run.
• cli-version - Version of the certora-cli to use (optional). By default, the latest version is used. This action is compatible with versions 7.9.0 and above.
• cli-release - Release type of the certora-cli to use (optional). Default is stable. Options are stable, alpha, beta, or a custom branch name. Everything other than stable should only be used for testing purposes and is not recommended for production use.
• ecosystem - Name of the CLI ecosystem, the options are evm, solana, and sui. evm is the default ecosystem.
• server - Server to run the tests on (optional). Default is production.
• job-name - Name of the job (optional).
• install-java - Install Java for type checking (optional). Default is true.
• compilation-steps-only - Compile the spec and the code without sending a verification request to the cloud (optional). Default is false.
• comment-fail-only - Add a report comment to the pr only when the job fails (optional). Default it true.
• certora-key - API key for Certora Prover.
• working-directory - Working directory to run the action in (optional). Default is the root of the repository.
• use-hard-links - Whether to use hard links when copying files (optional). If you expect to modify the files in the run directory during certoraRun execution, you should set this to false.
• debug-level - Debug level for the action (optional). Default is 0. Possible values are 0, 1, 2, and 3. Higher values will produce more debug output.

EVM specific inputs (ecosystem: evm):

• solc-versions - List of Solidity versions to download. The first version in the list will also be available as solc in the environment. Each version will be available as both solc<version> and solc-<version> in the environment.
• solc-remove-version-prefix - Prefix to remove from the Solidity version (optional).
• vyper-version - The version of Vyper to install. Can be latest, or a specific version like 0.3.3. If not specified, Vyper will not be installed.

Solana specific inputs (ecosystem: solana):

• rust-version - The version of Rust to install. If not specified, the latest stable version will be used. The minimum supported version is 1.82.0.
• rust-additional-versions - Additional versions of Rust to install, separated by spaces. Example: 1.75 1.79.
• certora-sbf-version - The version of cargo-certora-sbf to install. If not specified, the latest version will be used.
• certora-sbf-options - Additional options to pass to the cargo certora-sbf command. This can be used to specify additional flags or configurations for the Certora SBF tool.
• rust-setup - Whether to set up Rust for Solana. The default is true. If you need more control over the Solana installation or options, you could use the Certora Rust Setup Action directly in your workflow.

🧩 Note: Installing the Sui CLI

This action does not automatically install the Sui CLI. If your workflow requires running Sui commands, make sure the CLI is installed beforehand. You can install it manually using the following commands:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MystenLabs/suiup/main/install.sh | sh
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
suiup install -y sui@testnet

Comments on the Pull Request

First, it will add a comment with details about runs:

Then you can see the live status of the runs:

And finally, once the first job finishes, GH App will add and update a review with the results:

Migration from v1 to v2

If you are migrating from v1 to v2, you need to update the action reference in your workflow file:

• Permissions: In order to provide verification using GitHub OIDC, we need to enable id-token: write permission. This way we can authenticate to Certora and verify that Certora Run Application was installed on the repository. Update your workflow file to include the id-token: write permission:

permissions:
  contents: read
  statuses: write
  pull-requests: write
+  id-token: write

• CLI Release: The use-beta/use-alpha inputs have been replaced with cli-release. The default value is stable, so if you want to use the beta version, you need to specify it explicitly:

      - name: Submit verification jobs to Certora Prover
-       uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v1
+       uses: Certora/certora-run-action@v2
        with:
          configurations: |-
            tests/evm/conf-verified.conf
          solc-versions: 0.7.6 0.8.1
-         use-beta: true
+         cli-release: beta

Development Setup

For local development, you can use the act tool to run the action locally. The easiest way to set up everything is through a combination of nix and direnv.

In order to set up the environment, follow these steps:

direnv allow

Then, you can run the action with the following command:

act workflow_dispatch \
    -s GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" \
    -s CERTORAKEY="$CERTORAKEY" \
    -W .github/workflows/main.yml \
    --container-architecture=linux/amd64

For testing, please create a PR using the Certora Action Test repository. The PR should start several workflows on all of our environments.