If you are writing a custom component to install, you can access the Action Framework using skuid.builder.core.getActionsCategory().
That means, in the Builder.js push this property to your properties:
skuid.builder.core.getActionsCategory({ label: "My Actions",<br /> customNodeId: "myactions",<br /> linkedComponent: component,<br /> props: [{<br /> type: "helptext",<br /> html: "Here my helptext"<br /> }]<br /> });
To run all the Actions specified in the Action Framework in the Runtime.js use this code.
skuid.actions.runActionsNode(xmlDef.children("myactions"), this.component, {});
Maybe there are way more properties you could set or write cleaner code, but since it’s not documented this was all I could find out by analyzing the Skuid Code.
It worked for me when I wrote a custom file upload component.