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Add a metadata file

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- [Instructor] At this point, we have just about everything in place for our action. Now we can add metadata. The metadata will provide details about the action, and more importantly, it specifies the interfaces needed for the workflow environment to call the action successfully. We can include seven types of metadata for our action. Required metadata includes the action name, a description, the author of the action, and the specific commands needed to run the action. And I should say that the author isn't really required, but if you're writing a custom action, you should be proud to put your name on it. Other metadata that we can include, but isn't required, are inputs, outputs, and branding. GitHub uses Feather Icons to add icons to actions. On the Feather Icons website, we can see that there are hundreds of different icons to choose from. To find the right icon, we can use the search bar to filter things down a…

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