The required status checks thing as of late doesn’t automatically show status checks, instead there’s a text area where you can enter a search criteria to get a choice of matching status checks to add.

This isn’t the first question I’ve seen asked about this, and it feels like the docs could use a picture or two.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/defining-the-mergeability-of-pull-requests/about-protected-branches#require-status-checks-before-merging

Here’s a sample of me searching for a status check to require:

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And once I’ve added it, I can control whether I care about the source of the status check:

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Here, I’m saying that I want a passing ✅ from GitHub Actions for Check Spelling.