Seems like actionlint lack support to detect when we call reusable workflow in the main workflow.

[IAMDAVID0921]

For example, (All pseudo code)
In Main workflow:
we call reusable workflow like:

 Build-abc:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_workflow.yml
    with:
      xxxx: xxxxx
      yyyy: yyyyy

Then we want to use the abc_output from the reusable workflow as an input in another reusable workflow, we do something like:

Run-abc-test:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/another_reusable_workflow.yml
    with:
      abc_value: ${{ needs.Build-abc.outputs.abc_version }}

This will make actionlint fail as

.github/workflows/another_reusable_workflow.yml:64:31: property "build-abc" is not defined in object type {promote-bundle: {outputs: {}; result: string}} [expression]
   |
64 |                 abc_value: ${{ needs.Build-abc.outputs.abc_version }}
   |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

In .github/workflows/reusable_workflow.yml:

name: Build abc
on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      xxxx:
        required: true
        type: string
      yyyy:
        required: true
        type: string
    outputs:
      abc_version:
        value: ${{ xxxx.xxxx.xxxx }}

[rhysd]

I can't fully understand your issue only from the code snippets, but I could not reproduce this from the following workflows.

main.yml

on: push

jobs:
  Build-abc:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_workflow.yml
  run-abc-test:
    needs: [Build-abc]
    uses: ./.github/workflows/another_reusable_workflow.yml
    with:
      abc_value: ${{ needs.Build-abc.outputs.abc_version }}

reusable_workflow.yml

on:
  workflow_call:
    outputs:
      abc_version:
        description: "..."
        value: "..."
jobs:
  triage:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - run: echo reusable

another_reusable_workflow.yml

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      abc_value:
        description: "..."
        type: string
jobs:
  triage:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - run: echo another reusable

actionlint reported no error.

[rhysd]

Please tell me entire workflows which can reproduce your issue.

[ssbarnea]

That is a real issue, here a another example:

.github/workflows/tox.yml:237:21: property "passed_name" is not defined in object type {} [expression]
    |
237 |           name: ${{ matrix.passed_name }}
    |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As you can see, the matrix values is loaded from output of another job, so I am not surprised that the linter is not able to find it. For cases like this we need a way to disable the rule, as static checking cannot detect these:

  build:
    strategy:
      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.prepare.outputs.matrix) }}

I think that this is a strong call for having some kind of noqa magic comments, so we can silence different rule occurrences.

[rhysd]

Again, please tell me entire workflows which can reproduce your issue.