diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
index b59db69f8c87..9248c5f4d684 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ jobs:
           # number based on the available host CPUs and the reality will be a
           # long chain of largely serialized download events with little or no
           # usage of the host machine. Fortunately, local actions are
-          # *separately* gated on `--local_*_resources` that will avoid a large
+          # *separately* gated on '--local_*_resources' that will avoid a large
           # jobs value overwhelming the host. There is a bug to make downloads
           # behave completely asynchronously and remove the need for this filed
           # back in 2018 but work seemed to not finish: