GitHub is pretty aggressive here

action.yml

@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ inputs:
   topic:
     description: 'Ntfy topic'
     required: true
-  # status:
+  status:
-  #   description: 'Job status. Use ${{ job.status }} for most cases'
+    description: 'Job status. Use expression {{ job.status }} for most cases'
-  #   required: true
+    required: true
-  #   default: '${{ job.status }}'
   user:
     description: 'Username for ntfy server'
     required: true # should be false, but we'll do authenticated sessions only for now
@@ -22,4 +21,4 @@ runs:
   using: 'docker'
   image: 'Dockerfile'
   args:
-    - ${{ job.status }}
+    - ${{ inputs.status }}