diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c3aaa1704b..731eec050f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ jobs:
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-    - name: Clone Flutter SDK
+    - name: Clone Flutter SDK; download SDK artifacts; get our dependencies
       run: |
         git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter ~/flutter
         TZ=UTC git --git-dir ~/flutter/.git log -1 --format='%h | %ci | %s' --date=iso8601-local
         echo ~/flutter/bin >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
-
-    - name: Download Flutter SDK artifacts and our dependencies
-      run: |
+        export PATH="~/flutter/bin${GITHUB_PATH:+:$GITHUB_PATH}"
         flutter precache --universal
         flutter --version
         flutter pub get