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+name: 'Upload Pages artifact'
+description: 'A composite action that prepares your static assets to be deployed to GitHub Pages'
+inputs:
+  directory:  # id of input
+    description: 'The directory in your workspace that contains the built assets'
+    required: true
+    default: '_site/'
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:      
+    - name: Archive build output
+      run: "tar --dereference --hard-dereference --directory ${{ inputs.directory }} -cvf artifact.tar ."
+      working-directory: "/workspace"
+    - name: Upload artifact
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
+      with:
+        name: "github-pages"
+        path: /workspace/artifact.tar