GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CI
Ship It Weekly · 2025-12-20 · 12 min
Episode notes
This week on Ship It Weekly , Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to AI agents. We start with GitHub Actions. GitHub announced a new “cloud platform” charge for self-hosted runners in private/internal repos… then hit pause after backlash. Hosted runner price reductions for 2026 are still planned. We also got the perfect timing joke: a GitHub incident the same week. Next up is HashiCorp. Legacy HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud) Free is reaching end-of-life in 2026, with orgs moving to the newer Free tier capped at 500 managed resources. If you’re running real infrastructure, this is a good moment to audit what you’re actually managing and decide whether you’re cleaning up, paying, or planning a migration. Then we talk PromptPwnd: why stuffing untrusted PR/issue text into AI agent prompts (inside CI) can turn into a supply chain/security problem.
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