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I suggest you fork any actions you depend on.

Given that actions can reference other actions, is this even feasible? You'd have to go and fork all deps, and then if you ever want to pull upstream, repatch.

I don’t think that’s the case. As far as I have read, a multi-step action that you create cannot use a community action.

I was wanting to do this so as to be able to break up some lengthy workflows into reusable pieces, so I figured I’d create some actions, but when I tried to use for example the standard checkout action, inside my action, it failed. I emailed support and they said that actions inside actions was not supported.

Perhaps you are referring to something else? A different type of action?

I’m wrong. I naively assumed it worked a different way.

That’s what I do. So that is similar to me just scripting out admin actions myself. Not the end of the world, but hopefully will get better in time.

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