[WIP] Fix GitHub Pages deployment errors due to missing artifacts

[Copilot]

• Identify the root cause of the deployment failure
• Fix the typo in the checkout action reference
• Validate the workflow file syntax
• Verify the fix is minimal and correct

Issue Found:
The build-website.yml workflow had a typo on line 12: uses: /actions/checkout@... included an invalid leading slash. GitHub Actions syntax requires action references in the format owner/repo@ref without a leading slash.

Root Cause:
When the checkout action failed:

1. The build job couldn't check out the repository code
2. The build failed before creating the dist/ directory
3. The artifact upload step never ran
4. The deploy job failed with "No artifacts named 'github-pages' were found"

Solution Applied:
Removed the leading slash from /actions/checkout to make it actions/checkout. This allows the workflow to:

• Successfully check out the code
• Build the Astro site
• Upload the "github-pages" artifact
• Deploy to GitHub Pages successfully

Changes Made:

• Fixed line 12 in .github/workflows/build-website.yml: Changed /actions/checkout@... to actions/checkout@...

Original prompt

Annotations
3 errors
Deploy to GitHub Pages
Error: No artifacts named "github-pages" were found for this workflow run. Ensure artifacts are uploaded with actions/upload-artifact@v4 or later.
Deploy to GitHub Pages
Error: No artifacts named "github-pages" were found for this workflow run. Ensure artifacts are uploaded with actions/upload-artifact@v4 or later.
at getArtifactMetadata (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/d6db90164ac5ed86f2b6aed7e0febac5b3c0c03e/src/internal/api-client.js:85:1)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at Deployment.create (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/d6db90164ac5ed86f2b6aed7e0febac5b3c0c03e/src/internal/deployment.js:66:1)
at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/d6db90164ac5ed86f2b6aed7e0febac5b3c0c03e/src/index.js:30:1)
Deploy to GitHub Pages
Fetching artifact metadata failed. Is githubstatus.com reporting issues with API requests, Pages, or Actions? Please re-run the deployment at a later time.

help me understand why the deploy is not able to find . do i have to download the artifact? i thought that happened by default Skip to content
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chore(deps): bump astro from 5.13.5 to 5.14.4 (#950) #24
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.github/workflows/build-website.yml at e0c43b3
name: Deploy Site to GitHub Pages

on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
build:
name: Build Astro site
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: /actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-node@a0853c2 # v5.0.0
with:
node-version: 23
cache: npm

  - name: Install dependencies
    run: npm ci
  - name: Build website
    run: |
      npm run build
      ls dist/
  - name: Upload Build Artifact
    uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@7b1f4a764d45c48632c6b24a0339c27f5614fb0b # v4.0.0
    with:
      path: dist/

deploy:
name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
needs: build
permissions:
pages: write
id-token: write
environment:
name: github-pages
url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
id: deployment
uses: actions/deploy-pages@d6db901 # v4.0.5

it seems to now be able tof ind the artifact. do i have to manually download it too?

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[lwasser]

i have no idea why this happened. closing it.