diff --git a/playbooks/publish/post.yaml b/playbooks/publish/post.yaml
index 6e322fd1d..f76b2b17d 100644
--- a/playbooks/publish/post.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/publish/post.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
     - name: Update the HTK dependencies
       shell: |
         sed -i 's#file://../helm-toolkit#https://tarballs.opendev.org/openstack/openstack-helm-infra#g' index.yaml
-      chdir:
       args:
         executable: /bin/bash
         chdir: "{{ zuul.project.src_dir }}"