diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd_3-trunk.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd_3-trunk.yml
index 3d7ad8785abc..3068ed860234 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd_3-trunk.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd_3-trunk.yml
@@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ jobs:
       github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
     runs-on: ubuntu-${{ vars.UBUNTU_RUNNER_VERSION || '24.04' }}
     steps:
+      # Required before referencing any local (./) action below — the runner's
+      # workspace is otherwise empty, so GitHub can't locate deploy-javascript-sdk's or
+      # notify-slack's action.yml (same gap already hit and fixed once in
+      # cicd_release-sdk.yml's publish job).
+      - name: 'Checkout'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
       - name: 'Compute next version'
         id: next-version
         env:
diff --git a/core-web/libs/sdk/client/src/internal.ts b/core-web/libs/sdk/client/src/internal.ts
index 65af91812d1a..79c56459a62d 100644
--- a/core-web/libs/sdk/client/src/internal.ts
+++ b/core-web/libs/sdk/client/src/internal.ts
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+// This is the export. This comment is only to trigger a build.
 export { graphqlToPageEntity } from './lib/utils/graphql/transforms';