Try.

.woodpecker/build.yaml

@@ -14,11 +14,9 @@ steps:
 - name: prepare
   image: alpine
   commands:
-    - pwd
-    - echo "Home $HOME"
-    - ls -la $HOME
     # Because we run the next step as user 1000 to make podman work:
     - chown -R 1000:1000 .
+    - chown -R 1000:1000 $HOME
 
 - name: build-jars
   image: registry.mnl.de/mnl/jdk21-builder:v3
@@ -28,9 +26,6 @@ steps:
     REGISTRY_TOKEN:
       from_secret: REGISTRY_TOKEN
   commands:
-    - pwd
-    - echo "Home $HOME"
-    - ls -la $HOME
     - ./gradlew -Pdocker.registry=$REGISTRY/$REGISTRY_USER build apidocs publishImage
   backend_options:
     kubernetes: