Code Owners Validator

A GitHub Action that validates your CODEOWNERS file against specified source folders. It ensures every file in those folders has an owner and that every relevant rule in CODEOWNERS matches at least one file.

What it validates

• Coverage: Every file under the specified folders is matched by at least one rule in CODEOWNERS. Files without owners cause the action to fail.
• No orphan rules: Every rule in CODEOWNERS that is relevant to the specified folders matches at least one file. Rules that don't match any file cause the action to fail (so you can clean up obsolete entries).

Inputs

Input	Required	Default	Description
path	Yes	./.github/CODEOWNERS	Path to the CODEOWNERS file.
folders	Yes	src	Newline-separated list of folders to validate.

Folder entries are trimmed; empty lines are ignored. Leading ! is preserved (e.g. ! vendor).

Usage

Basic

- uses: your-org/codeowners-validator-action@v1
  with:
    path: ./.github/CODEOWNERS
    folders: |
      src

Custom path and multiple folders

- uses: your-org/codeowners-validator-action@v1
  with:
    path: ./CODEOWNERS
    folders: |
      src
      lib
      packages

Example workflow

name: Validate CODEOWNERS
on: [pull_request, push]
jobs:
  validate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: your-org/codeowners-validator-action@v1
        with:
          path: ./.github/CODEOWNERS
          folders: |
            src
            lib

Development

Setup

npm install

Build and package

npm run build && npm run package

Test

npm test

Local validation

You can run the action from the repo root (see .github/workflows/test.yml):

uses: ./
with:
  path: ./CODEOWNERS
  folders: |
    ./src

Publishing

1. Build and package: npm run package
2. Commit and push the dist/ folder to your distribution branch (e.g. releases/v1).

See GitHub Actions versioning for tagging and versioning.

License

See LICENSE.