diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml b/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
index 7efa6425..5ca38078 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-user-config.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+            submodules: recursive
 
       - name: Install yaml2json
         run: python3 -m pip install remarshal
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+            submodules: recursive
 
       - name: Create build directory
         run: |