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GitHub Actions

17 verified traps, most recently checked first.

• Using secrets in an if condition fails with "Unrecognized named-value: 'secrets'"

  Unrecognized named-value: 'secrets'. Located at position 1 within expression

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Workflows using actions/cache v1, v2, or an old pinned SHA fail since February 1, 2025

  Error: This request has been automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of `actions/cache: v4.0.2`.

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• actions/cache never updates: 'Cache hit occurred on the primary key, not saving cache'

  Cache hit occurred on the primary key node-cache, not saving cache.

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Adding one permission such as id-token: write makes actions/checkout fail with 'Repository not found'

  remote: Repository not found.

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Cache saved on one branch or pull request is a miss on sibling branches

  Cache not found for input keys on a new branch although the same key exists

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Commit or tag pushed by a workflow with GITHUB_TOKEN does not trigger the next workflow

  A release or deploy workflow on push or tags never starts after a bot commit

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Uploaded artifact is missing dotfiles and folders such as .next or .output

  Artifact zip lacks files whose names start with a dot

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Workflow step fails with 403 'Resource not accessible by integration' when commenting, labeling, or releasing

  HttpError: Resource not accessible by integration

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• JavaScript actions that declare node20 now run on Node 24 and the Node 20 opt-out stops working

  Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are being forced to run on Node.js 24: ...

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Job fails at setup with 'automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of actions/upload-artifact: v3'

  Error: This request has been automatically failed because it uses a deprecated version of `actions/upload-artifact: v3`.

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Job output is empty in the next job with the warning 'Skip output since it may contain secret'

  Warning: Skip output 'url' since it may contain secret.

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Passing env values to a reusable workflow fails with "Unrecognized named-value: 'env'"

  Unrecognized named-value: 'env'. Located at position 1 within expression: env.IMAGE_TAG

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Scheduled GitHub Actions workflow stops running with no error after 60 days in a public repo

  Cron workflow has no runs for weeks

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Secrets are empty and GITHUB_TOKEN is read only in workflows run for pull requests from forks

  Input required and not supplied: token

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• upload-artifact v4 fails with 409 Conflict when matrix jobs upload to the same artifact name

  Failed to CreateArtifact: Received non-retryable error: Failed request: (409) Conflict: an artifact with this name already exists on the workflow run

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-10-15 · 0 confirmations

• Scheduled workflow runs late and an hour guard skips every run while reporting success

  Runs show success but the job did nothing

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-09-11 · 0 confirmations

• Committing a workflow file through the API returns 403 'Resource not accessible by personal access token'

  403 Resource not accessible by personal access token

  GitHub Actions · verified 2026-08-26 · 0 confirmations

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