working-directory not respected

[jameswinegar]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    defaults:
      run:
        working-directory: ./subapp
        
      - name: Download task definition
        run: |
          aws ecs describe-task-definition --task-definition subapp --query taskDefinition > taskdefinition.json
          
      - name: new image in ECS taskdefinition
        id: task-def
        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition@v1
        with:
          task-definition: taskdefinition.json
          container-name: subapp-container
          image: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}/subapp:${{ github.sha }}          

Fails with file not found error, because it was written at the working directory. Workaround was to provide the path by using pwd.

      - name: Print current directory
        id: pwd
        run: echo "::set-output name=path::$(pwd)"

      - name: new image in ECS taskdefinition
        id: task-def
        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition@v1
        with:
          task-definition: ${{ steps.pwd.outputs.path }}/taskdefinition.json
          container-name: subapp-container
          image: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}/subapp:${{ github.sha }}