veryska-action blocks retired model IDs at the pull request stage

On November 1, 2026, DEV Community's AI section reported that a developer had released versyka-action, a GitHub Action built to check model IDs referenced in code during the pull request stage. According to the report, the Action covers model IDs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral, and its retirement date data comes from those vendors plus several cloud platforms. When it detects a retired or soon-to-be-retired model ID, it fails the CI run and leaves a comment inside the PR. That comment is updated in place on each push. The report argues that a retired model does not break unit tests because tests mock the LLM, and the failure typically surfaces in production the day after a shutdown date. For that reason, it recommends checking model IDs at the same point as other code checks: on the pull request. To use it, a repository adds .github/workflows/models.yml with on: pull_request, a job that runs on ubuntu-latest, permissions for contents: read and pull-requests: write, and two steps: actions/checkout@v4 followed by versyka/versyka-action@v1. The report states that no account and no API key are required, and that the Action is already listed on the GitHub Marketplace. This is the earliest available report, and the story stands at this release-and-listing point with no later developments reported.