I built a container action in a repo:

ourorg/generic-snowsql-action

This repo contains an action.yml file. This repo is intended to be a generic container action that I can recycle in github actions workflows in other repos. E.g. I created another repo ourorg/specific-task-that-will-use-snowsql and a workflow and I would like to reference the container action from the other repo ourorg/generic-snowsql-action.

When I attempt to checkout this container action I get an error message:

Check failure on line 9 in .github/workflows/main.yml. The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/main.yml (Line: 9, Col: 15): Expected format {org}/{repo}[/path]@ref. Actual 'actions/checkout' Input string was not in a correct format.

Here is ourorg/specific-task-that-will-use-snowsql/.github/workflows/main.yml

on: [push]
jobs:

ssql_job:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

name: Build ssql image

steps:

- name: Checkout # To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository

uses: actions/checkout

with:

repository: ourorg/generic-snowsql-action

ref: main

- name: Build

uses: ./ # Uses an action in the root directory

with:

config: ./config # the config file for snowsql

query: ./training-data.sql

When I push this I get the error above. Presumably there’s an error with this piece, line 9 is

    steps:
      - name: Checkout # To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository
        uses: actions/checkout # this is line 9!

How can I correctly tell my main.yml to checkout the container action I created over at ourorg/generic-snowsql-action?