diff --git a/.github/workflows/github-actions.yml b/.github/workflows/github-actions.yml
index ba194246..50a2f9eb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/github-actions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/github-actions.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ jobs:
           directory: 'example/annotations'
           snakefile: 'pipelines/annotations.snakefile'
           args: '-j 2 -n --configfile pipelines/config/deeprvat_annotation_config.yaml'
-
+          stagein: 'mkdir -vp reference && touch reference/hg38.fa'