Composite actions can't see or use org or repo vars

[NicoForce]

Describe the bug Composite actions can't see org or repo vars.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a composite action
2. Use the vars context somewhere.
3. Use composite action
4. See error Unrecognized named-value: 'vars'.

Expected behavior Expected composite actions to be able to read org/repo variables.

Runner Version and Platform

Ubuntu latest.

OS of the machine running the runner? Ubuntu

What's not working?

Error: /runner/_work/xxx/xxx/./scripts/github-actions/deploy/exec-deployment/action.yml (Line: 34, Col: 11): Unrecognized named-value: 'vars'. Located at position 29 within expression: env.ENV != 'prod' && !vars.ALLOW

[ivan-kolisnyk]

We encountered this issue as well. Is there a suggested workaround?

[o-alexandrov]

Related GitHub community discussion

[dmckernanacv]

Really hard to understand why it behaves this way. For now my workflow config has to be in repo secrets I guess.

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[Sebastian-0]

This is still an issue. Our solution was to stop using custom composite actions altogether, although this issue was not the only reason for that.