The documentation suggests an invalid value for the name of a secret

[lpmi-13]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions

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

The article contains the following example configuration:

steps:
  - name: My first action
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      FIRST_NAME: Mona
      LAST_NAME: Octocat

However, when attempting to follow this example, I was presented with an error in the UI as follows:

"Failed to add secret. Secret names must not start with GITHUB_."

If this is not a valid naming convention for secrets, then it shouldn't be used in the documentation.

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[ramyaparimi]

@lpmi-13 I apologize for the delay in triaging this issue. Once in a while my notifications act wonky 😭
I removed the stale label and triaged this issue for a writer's review 👀 . I truly appreciate your patience 💖.

Thanks so much taking time to make contributions to GitHub docs 💖

[lpmi-13]

Hi @ramyaparimi! That's no problem at all. I actually think the corresponding PR was correctly closed earlier, since it seemed to be my error in misunderstanding the docs, so we can go ahead and close this issue.

[ramyaparimi]

@lpmi-13 Thanks so much 💖

Closing as PR linked to this issue was closed.

[badasukerubin]

This is an issue here: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/publishing-packages/publishing-nodejs-packages#example-workflow cc @ramyaparimi