step 08: add compile-check diagnostic before trigger steps#880
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Move the 'Hello Agent not in the sidebar yet?' TIP before the numbered trigger instructions and enhance it with a gh aw compile diagnostic command. Students who skipped the compile step in step 7 now get an actionable recovery path before attempting to trigger the workflow. Closes #868 Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Repair inline action fix in 08-run-workflow to reduce dropout rate
step 08: add compile-check diagnostic before trigger steps
Jul 14, 2026
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Students who missed
gh aw compilein step 7 arrived at step 8 with a broken workflow and no recovery path when "Hello Agent" didn't appear in the Actions sidebar. The only hint was buried after the trigger steps.Changes
workshop/08-run-your-workflow.mdgh aw compile .github/workflows/hello-agent.md --validateas an explicit first diagnostic so compile-miss failures surface immediately rather than leaving learners stuckThe inline Codespace
actions:writepermissions fix in the "Before You Start" checklist was already present and required no changes.