How do I add the GitLab project's artifacts to the release section?

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Since I created the exe file in the previous job, the artifacts are kept under that job. In order to access the artifact of the previous job before the next job, I keep the job id in a file while I was in the previous job and then pull the id from there.

This is my solution;


default:
  image: docker:24.0.7
  services:
    - docker:24.0.7-dind

variables:
  DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: "/certs"

stages:
  - prepare_release
  - release

prepare_release:
  stage: prepare_release
  before_script:
    - echo "Setting up packages for Build"
    - apk --no-cache add zip
  script:
    - docker buildx build -t my-docker-image --platform linux/arm64 . --build-arg TAG=$TAG
    - container_id=$(docker run -d -t my-docker-image)
    - mkdir -p artifacts/dist
    - docker cp $container_id:/app/dist ./artifacts/dist
    - echo "Zip distribution folder for Artifacts"
    - zip -r artifacts.zip ./artifacts/dist
    - echo "JOB_ID=$CI_JOB_ID" > artifacts/job.env  # Create job.env in the artifacts directory
  after_script:
    - cat artifacts/job.env  # Debug: Check the content of job.env
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - artifacts/
    expire_in: never
    reports:
      dotenv: artifacts/job.env  # Specify the path to the job.env file

create_release:
  stage: release
  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli:latest
  needs:
    - job: prepare_release
      artifacts: true
  variables:
    TAG: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
  script:
    - echo "Running the release job."
    - JOB_ID=$(cat artifacts/job.env)  # Read JOB_ID from job.env
    - echo JOB_ID
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
  release:
    name: 'Version $TAG'
    tag_name: '$TAG'
    description: "Release created using the release-cli. Release '$TAG'"  # Use double quotes for variable interpolation
    assets:
      links:
        - name: 'my-app.exe'
          url: '$CI_SERVER_URL/$CI_PROJECT_PATH/-/jobs/$JOB_ID/artifacts/download'
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