I created an action that needed a rich Markdown value in it, because it’s our weekly meeting agenda template which is formatted for humans with links and paragraphs and things. The Action syntax produced errors when trying to add the content directly to the action, but I got it to work by putting the content into the file, and using the file contents as an environment variable. That’s really the punchline of this post, but read on if you would like more details and some examples. Continue reading →