Question

A workflow has a job named deploy that must run only when the workflow is triggered on the main branch AND a previous job named test succeeded. A teammate writes the condition as a static expression that references context values. Which statement about GitHub Actions expression evaluation is correct for this scenario?

Accepted Answer

The job-level `if:` condition is evaluated at runtime, so it can reference `needs.test.result` and `github.ref`, but you do not wrap the whole condition in `${{ }}` because it is optional in an `if` key.

Answer

The `if:` condition must be wrapped in `${{ }}` in order to access the `needs` context, otherwise the expression is treated as a literal string and never evaluated.

Answer

The `needs.test.result` value is only available at parse time, so it must be resolved via a `workflow_dispatch` input before the job runs.

Answer

A job-level `if:` cannot access the `github` context because `github.ref` is a parse-time value that is stripped before jobs execute.