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+name: cffconvert
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+      - '**'
+
+jobs:
+  validate:
+    name: "validate CITATION.cff"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out a copy of the repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Check whether the citation metadata from CITATION.cff is valid
+        uses: citation-file-format/cffconvert-github-action@2.0.0
+        with:
+          args: "--validate"