Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace appears to wrongly suggest The action's metadata file (action.yml or action.yaml) must be in the root directory of the repository.

[jsoref]

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• I have read and agree to the GitHub Docs project's Code of Conduct

What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/sharing-automations/creating-actions/publishing-actions-in-github-marketplace

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

• The action's metadata file (action.yml or action.yaml) must be in the root directory of the repository.

This is apparently false. While researching an earlier point, I found one action listed on the marketplace without a root level action.yml,
enricomarino/actions https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aenricomarino%2Factions%20path%3Aaction.yml&type=code

And, it works: https://github.com/Finastra/fds-angular/actions/runs/10681780031/job/29606154031#step:9:1 (there were other theoretical users, but I didn't find any recent workflow runs among them).

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