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jaap-janandClaude Opus 5
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Every job died on its first line: "Cannot find: node in PATH", from actions/checkout. act_runner executes each `uses:` action with node inside the job container, and the image this runner is configured with has none — so nothing in the pipeline had run yet, including the tests the image job gates on. A `run:` step is shell rather than node, so one placed ahead of the first action can fix the job it is in. It installs via apt-get, apk or dnf, whichever is there, and says plainly what to do when none of them is. git goes in alongside, named in the step rather than smuggled into it: checkout shells out to git the moment node has loaded it, so an image thin enough to lack one usually lacks the other, and finding that out separately costs another round trip through CI. The version is warned about, not enforced. Distributions pin nodejs to whatever shipped with the release — Ubuntu 24.04 still serves 18, past end of life and older than these actions declare — but act_runner hands an action whichever node is on PATH regardless of what it asked for, and it generally works. A warning is the right weight for something that explains a later inexplicable failure without being one. Repeated verbatim in all three jobs. It cannot be a local composite action, since that needs the checkout it exists to unblock, and YAML anchors that would deduplicate it are rejected by GitHub's parser. Byte-identical across the three so a diff shows drift. This is still a workaround. The fix is one line of the runner's own config.yaml pointing container.image at an image that ships node, as Gitea's default catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest does; the step then costs a version check and nothing else. Kept regardless, because a pipeline that silently depends on a runner being configured correctly elsewhere fails confusingly when it is not. Verified by running the step's own script in ubuntu:24.04 and alpine:3.20, which have neither, and node:20-bookworm, which has both: installs where needed, no-ops where not, and warns only on the node 18 that Ubuntu gives. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>