Stuck 🟤 Pending with "Don't build anything"

[mountainash]

Often when we create a new PR the Vercel Check gets stuck on "pending" (as per the screenshot below).

We are pre-building our project before using the Vercel CLI to deploy a prebuilt archive to Vercel for hosting, eg vercel deploy --prebuilt --archive.

We need to keep the Vercel/GitHub integration to be able to map domains to branches, use branch environment variables and it's nice to see which PR/Commit the Deployment maps to in the Vercel Web UI. Without the Vercel GitHub App enabled, a lot of Vercel functionality is lost (but could be sent with the vercel deploy CLI command instead of needing GitHub Integration (which opens security concerns).

Screenshot showing GitHub UI in perpetual pending

Steps to Reproduce

1. Setup a Vercel project with:

• GitHub integration with the Vercel GitHub App
• "Don't build anything" in the "Ignored Build Step" setting for the project (eg: exit 0)

2. Have a GH Actions workflow triggered by a PR to create a deployment with the Vercel CLI vercel deploy --prebuilt --archive
3. Notice in the PR checks that the Vercel GitHub App will create a check "🟤 Vercel Pending — Vercel is deploying your app", but sometimes (not all the time) this will get stuck on this state. Most times it will correctly change to "✅ Vercel — Canceled by Ignored Build Step"

Deployment on Vercel UI are correctly canceled