Section: Artifacts and GitHub CLI

Download a prior artifact

yaml
yaml
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
  with:
    name: build-output
    path: ./artifacts
Explanation

Artifacts are a common way to hand off generated files between jobs.

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