The curriculum on this site teaches the reasoning. The toolkit is the artefacts — the files
you would otherwise write from scratch each time you set up a repository.
Before you buy
Who it is for
An engineer who sets up or tidies whole repositories — branching, reviews, rulesets, tokens, automation — and would rather adapt a reviewed file than assemble one each time.
What it helps you do
Getting a repository into a defensible state: who reviews what, which rules apply, which token permissions are needed, and what the pull request should ask for.
What you receive
Twenty-nine files in seven folders (git, github, github-api, actions, security, ai, devops) plus a README that links each file to the lesson explaining it. Markdown, YAML and shell — nothing proprietary.
What you configure yourself
All of it is a starting point: CODEOWNERS paths, ruleset choices, workflow versions and pinned action SHAs are yours to set. Each file opens with what it assumes and what to change first.
Price
$19.99 one-time. No subscription, no account, nothing recurring.
Delivery
A ZIP from a download page that opens the moment Stripe confirms payment, and keeps working for updates. No account, nothing to install. Order help covers a download page that does not open.
Licence, updates, refunds
Single engineer. Use in unlimited personal and employer repositories. Updates included. Full refund within 14 days of purchase, on request — reply to your Stripe receipt or use the contact page with your support reference. No questions asked; the files are yours to delete. Full terms.
Engineers who set up repositories repeatedly and would rather adapt a considered starting point
than assemble one each time — and who want the reasoning behind each file one link away.
Every new repository needs the same dozen decisions made again: what CODEOWNERS should say,
what the CI workflow’s permissions block should contain, which ruleset options to enable, how the
release workflow should be gated. The decisions are documented across this site. Assembling them
into files takes an afternoon each time, and the afternoon is where the mistakes creep in.
Twenty-nine files in seven folders, plus a README. Each carries a short note on what it assumes and what to change
first, and the README links every file to the lesson that explains it. The toolkit starts where the
free cheat sheets stop: one file is in both, deliberately —
gh-api-pagination-recipes.md is published
free, byte for byte, so you can judge the standard of the other twenty-eight before paying. The
remaining free downloads (a CODEOWNERS starter, a branching decision matrix, a repository health
checklist, the aliases file and the Actions security checklist) are shorter, separate files, not
extracts from the paid ones.
Licence — one engineer, unlimited personal and employer repositories. Adapt freely; do not
redistribute or resell the bundle; each engineer who wants it as their own starting point needs a
purchase. Delivery — a ZIP from a download page that opens the moment Stripe confirms payment
and stays valid; order help covers the case where it does not open. Updates —
included, published to the same download page. Refunds — a full refund within 14 days of
purchase, on request. Full terms are in the Terms; the price is at the top
of this page.
If you are learning Git, this is the wrong purchase. Work through
the curriculum and the labs — both free, and both more useful to
you right now than a set of templates.
If you enjoy writing your own tooling, you will probably prefer to. The lessons explain every
decision these templates encode.
If you need one specific checklist, several are published free — the
Actions security checklist is the fullest.
Purchases, downloads and refunds: admin@moderngitacademy.com. Include the Stripe receipt for anything about an existing order.
Already bought? Order help covers a download page that did not open, re-downloading,
updates and refunds.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly do I receive?
A download containing twenty-nine files in seven folders — git, github, github-api, actions, security, ai and devops — plus a README that maps each file to the lesson explaining it. Markdown, YAML and plain text; nothing proprietary, nothing that needs an account to open.
How is it delivered?
Digitally: the moment Stripe confirms payment you are sent to your download page, which stays valid for updates. If it does not open, contact us with your receipt.
What is the licence?
One engineer, unlimited repositories — personal and employer. You may adapt every file freely. You may not redistribute or resell the bundle. Each engineer who uses it as their own starting point needs a purchase.
Do I get updates?
Yes, included. Action versions move and GitHub features change; when a template is revised, the revision is yours.
What is the refund policy?
Refund terms are stated in the Terms and at checkout. If you are unsure whether the toolkit fits, the free alternatives below are complete enough to decide.
Is anything from the free site moving behind this?
No. Every lesson, lab, tool and checklist that is free stays free. The toolkit is the artefacts the lessons describe — files you could write yourself from the lessons, assembled and annotated so you do not have to.
The toolkit’s five Actions templates are starting points. For the full implementation set —
twenty workflows covering CI for five languages, containers, Terraform, Ansible, security
scanning, releases, Pages, Kubernetes and OIDC for three clouds, plus reusable workflows — the
Vault is the focused product. Neither repeats the other.