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build-ml failed at the login step twice ona7e626a, five seconds in, with MODULE_NOT_FOUND on the action's own dist/index.js. Not the token — the secret resolved to *** and the action never ran far enough to use it. The cause is a race in act_runner's shared action cache, not corruption. A remote action is cached at one /root/.cache/act/<hash> per runner, and build-web, build-ml and build-agent all start in the same second and all want docker/login-action@v3. One job re-clones that directory — emptying and repopulating it — while another walks it to copy into its container, and the walker lstat()s a file that just vanished. The two failures named DIFFERENT missing files, eslint.config.mjs then jest.config.ts, which is what rules out a bad cache entry and points at the race: a dangling entry would name the same file every time. Re-running does not help, because the re-run starts the three jobs simultaneously again. It reproduced immediately. Dropping the action removes FC from that race for this step. Logging in is one command, the docker CLI is already in the CI image per ci-requirements.md, and the same reasoning as family rule 5 applies: a marketplace action buys nothing when the tool is baked into the image the workflow already selected. Password on stdin, never as an argument — an argument lands in the process table and draws docker's own deprecation warning. This narrows the exposure rather than closing it. All three jobs also share docker/build-push-action@v5 and can race on it the same way; that one has not lost yet, and replacing it means hand-rolling buildx invocation including the build-args and provenance handling, which is a bigger change than this failure justifies. Recorded on #3118. Live consequence being cleared: fabledcurator-ml:dev was left a commit behind fabledcurator:dev, which is the stale-pairing trap the trigger comment on239b1edwarns about.