toolkit: Possible bug with expressions and steps..outputs

I’m not sure where I should be posting this, or how I can report bugs, so I’m starting here. Please point me in the right direction if this isn’t the forum

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My goal is to eloquently handle running (or NOT running) a step based on the value of an output from a previous step. In this case i want to do custom things IF my semantic-release step actually cut a new version.

1. According to the docs it says the steps context is directly accessible via property name “steps”. However when you want to use this in an jobs.<job_id>.steps.if expression, you need to access like job.steps..., i.e. if: job.steps.<step id>.status == failure

2. However the actual steps context as documented (with outputs) is NOT accessible inside an if expression

3. Everywhere else, ${{ steps.<step id>.outputs }} works fine. In env it works, in run it works. Everything here works as expected:

- run: |
    printenv
    echo ${{ steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version }}
    echo $VERSION
    echo "$OUTPUTS"
  env:
    VERSION: ${{ steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version }}
    OUTPUTS: ${{ toJson(steps.semantic.outputs) }}

1. However, in an if expression if: steps.<step id>.outputs.someOutput == 'foo', it throws an error:

- Your workflow file was invalid: .github/workflows/test.yml (Line: 42, Col: 13): Unrecognized named-value: 'steps'. Located at position 1 within expression: steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version

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Here’s a full example

name: testing outputs

on: push

jobs:
  tester:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1

      - uses: codfish/semantic-release-action@testing
        id: semantic
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

      - name: test outputs

        # printenv shows OUTPUTS object but NOT JOB_OUTPUTS
        # echo ${{ steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version }} works as expected
        # echo $VERSION works as expected
        run: |
          printenv
          echo ${{ steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version }}
          echo $VERSION # this works
        env:
          VERSION: ${{ steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version }}
          OUTPUTS: ${{ toJson(steps.semantic.outputs) }}
          JOB_OUTPUTS: ${{ toJson(job.steps.semantic.outputs) }}

      # this does NOT work, whether using true or 'true'
      - if: job.steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_bool == 'true'
        run: |
          echo "steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_bool is true"

      # this actually throws the above error
      - if: steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_bool == 'true'
        run: |
          echo "steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_bool is true"

      # this does NOT work
      - if: contains(job.steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_version, '.')
        run: |
          echo "steps.semantic.outputs.semantic_release_bool is true"

I’m using https://github.com/codfish/semantic-release-action/compare/testing-outputs?expand=1 for testing (tagged with testing).