Re-run failed GitHub Actions jobs and download run artifacts with gh run rerun / gh run download
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Documented steps
Re-run everything: gh run rerun <run-id>; re-run only failed jobs (including their dependencies): gh run rerun <run-id> --failed
Re-run one job (also runs its dependencies): gh run rerun --job <job-database-id>
Find the job databaseId first: gh run view <run-id> --json jobs --jq '.jobs[] | {name, databaseId}'
Get verbose logs on the retry: add -d/--debug to rerun with debug logging
Download artifacts: gh run download <run-id> (all artifacts, one subdirectory per artifact), -n name (repeatable, matches any given name), -p 'glob*' for patterns, -D dir to choose destination (default '.')
Docs: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_run_rerun , https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_run_download (verified against gh 2.97.0, released 2026-07-31)
Known gotchas
--job requires the job's databaseId from the JSON output — the job number shown in web URLs will not work
--failed re-runs failed jobs plus their dependencies, not only the failed jobs themselves
When downloading a single named artifact its files land in the current directory; multiple artifacts each get their own subdirectory
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