Accessing Published Artifacts from yaml pipeline tasks

Question

I have a PowerShell task that processes published artifacts from another stage.

I have noticed these are put into a folder "s". Random sampling shows its "s" all the time but I doubt if it will be the case always!

Wondering what's the best way to refer to these files safely?

Here's my publish artifacts task:

Published artifacts:

And the PowerShell task that consumes these artifacts:

Answer 1

The predefined variable you are looking for is $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory). Please refer to the documentation to see this variables definition

Answer 2

The variable that you use does not work with the s folder. As described on the documentation Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory is the local path on the agent where any artifacts are copied to before being pushed to their destination. For example: c:\agent_work\1\a . You will find those files under a folder. The folder that is referred with the s letter is where the sources are downloaded Build.SourcesDirectory .

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml

Documentation on Azure devops predfined variables that can be used and where the folders are located.

https://blog.geralexgr.com/devops/how-azure-devops-pipelines-agent-works