FailFastUploadArtifact

upload-artifact should fail fast.

Defined by FailFastActionsRule which supports workflows, actions in the "Default" ruleset along with FailFastPublishUnitTestResults, FailFastPeterEvansCreatePullRequest, FailFastSoftpropsGhRelease.

Description

actions/upload-artifact should be configured to fail the CI when no files are found.

When the action is not configured to fail on missing files, the action step will be successful even when the artifact is not uploaded.

There are no branch protection rules to ensure that an artifact is produced, so the only way to ensure that the workflows are correct, is by failing the action step when the artifact input files are missing.

See the if-no-files-found input declaration.

In case you're certain this if acceptable behavior, disable this by explicitly setting if-no-files-found: warn or if-no-files-found: ignore.

Compliant example

if-no-files-found input is specified.

example.yml

on: push
jobs:
  example:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          if-no-files-found: error
          path: |
            build/some/report/

Non-compliant example

if-no-files-found input is not declared, so it uses the default warn value.

example.yml

on: push
jobs:
  example:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          path: |
            build/some/report/

• Line 6: Step[actions/upload-artifact@v4] in Job[example] should have input if-no-files-found: error.