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Fairy of Grass

GitHub Actions template that auto-generates daily contributions by creating scheduled empty commits.

GitHub Actions YAML Template Repository Automation
Fairy of Grass screenshot

Fairy of Grass keeps a GitHub contribution graph green by committing for you. It’s a template repo: a GitHub Actions workflow runs once a day (~12:00 GMT) and pushes an empty commit, which counts as a contribution without pretending to be real work.

Setup is three steps

  1. Create a repo from the template
  2. Add one secret — USER_EMAIL — so the commit is attributed to you
  3. Done; the daily schedule takes it from there

The whole thing is one cron-scheduled Action and a single secret — deliberately tiny, so it’s easy to read end-to-end before you trust it with your profile. (Whether you should farm your own grass is between you and your contribution graph.)