diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 *.kate-swp
 .env
 **/.env
+runner/data/
diff --git a/runner/.env.example b/runner/.env.example
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+INSTANCE_URL=https://git.wampler.us
+REGISTRATION_TOKEN=changeme
+RUNNER_NAME=runner-01
+RUNNER_LABELS=ubuntu-latest:docker://gitea/runner-images:ubuntu-latest,ubuntu-22.04:docker://gitea/runner-images:ubuntu-22.04
diff --git a/runner/compose.yml b/runner/compose.yml
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+services:
+  runner:
+    image: gitea/act_runner:latest
+    container_name: gitea-runner
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      - CONFIG_FILE=/config.yaml
+      - GITEA_INSTANCE_URL=${INSTANCE_URL}
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=${REGISTRATION_TOKEN}
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_NAME=${RUNNER_NAME}
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_LABELS=${RUNNER_LABELS}
+    volumes:
+      - ./config.yaml:/config.yaml
+      - ./data:/data
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 2G
+          cpus: '2.0'
diff --git a/runner/config.yaml b/runner/config.yaml
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+# Example configuration file, it's safe to copy this as the default config file without any modification.
+
+# You don't have to copy this file to your instance,
+# just run `./act_runner generate-config > config.yaml` to generate a config file.
+
+log:
+  # The level of logging, can be trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal
+  level: info
+
+runner:
+  # Where to store the registration result.
+  file: .runner
+  # Execute how many tasks concurrently at the same time.
+  capacity: 1
+  # Extra environment variables to run jobs.
+  envs:
+    A_TEST_ENV_NAME_1: a_test_env_value_1
+    A_TEST_ENV_NAME_2: a_test_env_value_2
+  # Extra environment variables to run jobs from a file.
+  # It will be ignored if it's empty or the file doesn't exist.
+  env_file: .env
+  # The timeout for a job to be finished.
+  # Please note that the Gitea instance also has a timeout (3h by default) for the job.
+  # So the job could be stopped by the Gitea instance if its timeout is shorter than this.
+  timeout: 3h
+  # The timeout for the runner to wait for running jobs to finish when shutting down.
+  # Any running jobs that haven't finished after this timeout will be cancelled.
+  shutdown_timeout: 0s
+  # Whether skip verifying the TLS certificate of the Gitea instance.
+  insecure: false
+  # The timeout for fetching the job from the Gitea instance.
+  fetch_timeout: 5s
+  # The interval for fetching the job from the Gitea instance.
+  fetch_interval: 2s
+  # The maximum interval for fetching the job from the Gitea instance.
+  # The runner uses exponential backoff when idle, increasing the interval up to this maximum.
+  # Set to 0 or same as fetch_interval to disable backoff.
+  fetch_interval_max: 5s
+  # The base interval for periodic log flush to the Gitea instance.
+  # Logs may be sent earlier if the buffer reaches log_report_batch_size
+  # or if log_report_max_latency expires after the first buffered row.
+  log_report_interval: 5s
+  # The maximum time a log row can wait before being sent.
+  # This ensures even a single log line appears on the frontend within this duration.
+  # Must be less than log_report_interval to have any effect.
+  log_report_max_latency: 3s
+  # Flush logs immediately when the buffer reaches this many rows.
+  # This ensures bursty output (e.g., npm install) is delivered promptly.
+  log_report_batch_size: 100
+  # The interval for reporting task state (step status, timing) to the Gitea instance.
+  # State is also reported immediately on step transitions (start/stop).
+  state_report_interval: 5s
+  # The github_mirror of a runner is used to specify the mirror address of the github that pulls the action repository.
+  # It works when something like `uses: actions/checkout@v4` is used and DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL is set to github,
+  # and github_mirror is not empty. In this case,
+  # it replaces https://github.com with the value here, which is useful for some special network environments.
+  github_mirror: ''
+  # The labels of a runner are used to determine which jobs the runner can run, and how to run them.
+  # Like: "macos-arm64:host" or "ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest"
+  # Find more images provided by Gitea at https://gitea.com/gitea/runner-images .
+  # If it's empty when registering, it will ask for inputting labels.
+  # If it's empty when execute `daemon`, will use labels in `.runner` file.
+  labels:
+    - "ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest"
+    - "ubuntu-24.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-24.04"
+    - "ubuntu-22.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-22.04"
+
+cache:
+  # Enable cache server to use actions/cache.
+  enabled: true
+  # The directory to store the cache data.
+  # If it's empty, the cache data will be stored in $HOME/.cache/actcache.
+  dir: ""
+  # The host of the cache server.
+  # It's not for the address to listen, but the address to connect from job containers.
+  # So 0.0.0.0 is a bad choice, leave it empty to detect automatically.
+  host: ""
+  # The port of the cache server.
+  # 0 means to use a random available port.
+  port: 0
+  # The external cache server URL. Valid only when enable is true.
+  # If it's specified, act_runner will use this URL as the ACTIONS_CACHE_URL rather than start a server by itself.
+  # The URL should generally end with "/".
+  # Requires external_secret below to be set to the same value on both this runner and the cache-server.
+  external_server: ""
+  # Shared secret between this runner and the external `act_runner cache-server`. Required when external_server
+  # (or `act_runner cache-server`) is in use: the runner pre-registers each job's ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN with the
+  # cache-server, and the cache-server enforces bearer auth + per-repo cache isolation.
+  external_secret: ""
+
+container:
+  # Specifies the network to which the container will connect.
+  # Could be host, bridge or the name of a custom network.
+  # If it's empty, act_runner will create a network automatically.
+  network: ""
+  # Whether to use privileged mode or not when launching task containers (privileged mode is required for Docker-in-Docker).
+  privileged: false
+  # Any other options to be used when the container is started (e.g., --add-host=my.gitea.url:host-gateway).
+  options:
+  # The parent directory of a job's working directory.
+  # NOTE: There is no need to add the first '/' of the path as act_runner will add it automatically. 
+  # If the path starts with '/', the '/' will be trimmed.
+  # For example, if the parent directory is /path/to/my/dir, workdir_parent should be path/to/my/dir
+  # If it's empty, /workspace will be used.
+  workdir_parent:
+  # Volumes (including bind mounts) can be mounted to containers. Glob syntax is supported, see https://github.com/gobwas/glob
+  # You can specify multiple volumes. If the sequence is empty, no volumes can be mounted.
+  # For example, if you only allow containers to mount the `data` volume and all the json files in `/src`, you should change the config to:
+  # valid_volumes:
+  #   - data
+  #   - /src/*.json
+  # If you want to allow any volume, please use the following configuration:
+  # valid_volumes:
+  #   - '**'
+  valid_volumes: []
+  # Overrides the docker client host with the specified one.
+  # If it's empty, act_runner will find an available docker host automatically.
+  # If it's "-", act_runner will find an available docker host automatically, but the docker host won't be mounted to the job containers and service containers.
+  # If it's not empty or "-", the specified docker host will be used. An error will be returned if it doesn't work.
+  docker_host: ""
+  # Pull docker image(s) even if already present
+  force_pull: true
+  # Rebuild docker image(s) even if already present
+  force_rebuild: false
+  # Always require a reachable docker daemon, even if not required by act_runner
+  require_docker: false
+  # Timeout to wait for the docker daemon to be reachable, if docker is required by require_docker or act_runner
+  docker_timeout: 0s
+  # Bind the workspace to the host filesystem instead of using Docker volumes.
+  # This is required for Docker-in-Docker (DinD) setups when jobs use docker compose
+  # with bind mounts (e.g., ".:/app"), as volume-based workspaces are not accessible
+  # from the DinD daemon's filesystem. When enabled, ensure the workspace parent
+  # directory is also mounted into the runner container and listed in valid_volumes.
+  bind_workdir: false
+
+host:
+  # The parent directory of a job's working directory.
+  # If it's empty, $HOME/.cache/act/ will be used.
+  workdir_parent:
+
+metrics:
+  # Enable the Prometheus metrics endpoint.
+  # When enabled, metrics are served at http://<addr>/metrics and a liveness check at /healthz.
+  enabled: false
+  # The address for the metrics HTTP server to listen on.
+  # Defaults to localhost only. Set to ":9101" to allow external access,
+  # but ensure the port is firewall-protected as there is no authentication.
+  addr: "127.0.0.1:9101"