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Today in very niche projects: I built a page showing the latest versions of all of the official GitHub Actions (actions/setup-python@v6 etc) so I can point Claude Code and friends at it when they're writing workflows for me simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/28/...

simonwillison.netsimonw/actions-latestToday in extremely niche projects, I got fed up of Claude Code creating GitHub Actions workflows for me that used stale actions: actions/setup-python@v4 when the latest is actions/setup-python@v6 for ...

thalassa (but scary) (well, maybe)

@th.alassa.pink

28 Dec 2025

not to nerdsnipe you but it would be nice to have this for Gemini model identifiers and everything else as well

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

I built that as a CLI tool! It would be good to have that in a repo though tools.simonwillison.net/python/#list...

tools.simonwillison.netPython scripts for use with uv runAssorted useful tools, almost entirely generated using LLMs

28/12/25, 10:50 pm0 reposts2 likes

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

28 Dec 2025

I was going to set up an automated one but sometimes the model vendors give me early access to things and I need to avoid accidentally leaking the model IDs - I guess I need some burner API accounts

thalassa (but scary) (well, maybe)

@th.alassa.pink

29 Dec 2025

sounds like an awesome problem to have :D maybe you could use openrouter instead? i don’t think it lags that far behind (but idk if this is possible)

thalassa (but scary) (well, maybe)

@th.alassa.pink

29 Dec 2025

and i personally wouldn’t need this every day, plus i often wanna see how much a model costs and whether it’s good or not. the big thing is fixing the “let’s use gemini 2.0 flash lite!” issue (the weird thing being that it’s both ancient and really not that old.)