Gitea Actions: Organization-level Variables Not Accessible in Workflows

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I’m using Gitea Actions for CI/CD workflows and variables defined under:
Organization → Settings → Variables
${{ vars.VARIABLE_NAME }}
are not accessible inside workflows using any of the standard syntax such as:

Just like secrets (accessed via ${{ secrets.NAME }}), I expect:

  • Organization-level variables

to be accessible in workflows using a syntax like:
${{ vars.MY_VARIABLE }}

CI Workflow File: .gitea/workflows/cd_workflows.yml