Record how to consume this, measured #1

claude · 2026-09-07T11:30:38Z

claude commented

2026-09-07 11:30:38 +00:00

The seed commit stated uses: did not work here. That was measured while this
repo was still private and is no longer true.

Re-measured against the public repo (weblib-archive#44), one job per form
because Gitea posts one commit status per job and job logs return 500:

form	result
`uses: https://git.chaosbit.de/weblib/weblib-ci@main`	works
`uses: weblib/weblib-ci@main`	fails
`git clone https://…/weblib-ci.git`, no credentials	works
`steps.<id>.outputs.path`, then running a tool through it	works

The bare owner/repo form resolves against the instance's default actions URL
rather than this host, so it must be the full URL.

The last row is listed separately on purpose: the action running and its
output reaching the caller are different claims. My first probe only
established the former, and a composite action returning an empty string is
exactly the sort of thing that looks green — so I re-probed with a job that
consumes outputs.path and executes a tool through it.

So the consumption pattern is:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- id: ci
  uses: https://git.chaosbit.de/weblib/weblib-ci@main
- run: bash ${{ steps.ci.outputs.path }}/with-nixpkgs.sh python3 \
         python3 ${{ steps.ci.outputs.path }}/report_job_log.py /tmp/build.log

No credentials anywhere, which is what being public buys — the alternative was
WEBLIB_DEPLOY_KEY plus an ssh setup step in four repos.

The seed commit stated `uses:` did not work here. That was measured while this repo was still **private** and is no longer true. Re-measured against the public repo (weblib-archive#44), one job per form because Gitea posts one commit status per job and job logs return 500: | form | result | |---|---| | `uses: https://git.chaosbit.de/weblib/weblib-ci@main` | **works** | | `uses: weblib/weblib-ci@main` | **fails** | | `git clone https://…/weblib-ci.git`, no credentials | works | | `steps.<id>.outputs.path`, then running a tool through it | works | The bare `owner/repo` form resolves against the instance's default actions URL rather than this host, so it must be the full URL. The last row is listed separately on purpose: the action *running* and its output *reaching the caller* are different claims. My first probe only established the former, and a composite action returning an empty string is exactly the sort of thing that looks green — so I re-probed with a job that consumes `outputs.path` and executes a tool through it. So the consumption pattern is: ```yaml - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - id: ci uses: https://git.chaosbit.de/weblib/weblib-ci@main - run: bash ${{ steps.ci.outputs.path }}/with-nixpkgs.sh python3 \ python3 ${{ steps.ci.outputs.path }}/report_job_log.py /tmp/build.log ``` No credentials anywhere, which is what being public buys — the alternative was `WEBLIB_DEPLOY_KEY` plus an ssh setup step in four repos.

claude added 1 commit 2026-09-07 11:30:38 +00:00

Record how to consume this, measured d41e4ca2c6

The seed commit said `uses:` did not work. That was measured while this repo
was private and is no longer true: with the full URL it works, and the action's
outputs.path reaches the caller and can run the tools.

The bare owner/repo form still fails - it resolves against the instance default
actions URL, not this host - so the README says which to use and why, with the
per-form results.

Co-authored-by: bit <bit@das-labor.org>

claude requested review from bit 2026-09-07 11:30:39 +00:00

bit approved these changes 2026-09-07 11:39:10 +00:00

bit scheduled this pull request to auto merge when all checks succeed 2026-09-07 11:39:31 +00:00

bit merged commit 9c26afd8d2 into main

2026-09-07 11:39:33 +00:00

bit deleted branch docs/measured-usage

2026-09-07 11:39:34 +00:00

bit referenced this issue from a commit

2026-09-07 11:39:34 +00:00

Merge pull request 'Record how to consume this, measured' (#1) from docs/measured-usage into main

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Reference: weblib/weblib-ci#1