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Not exactly an answer to your question, but you should be able to avoid this. I would try to build a dictionary inside apply and move the resource constructor outside, somewhat similar to <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-azure/blob/e07905225513d0adfaceac1633ac8e5d8c815c43/sdk/nodejs/appservice/zMixins.ts#L408-L424>

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ah that go code does look promising - but it looks like in the go sdk you can add assets and outputs to this map? in c# sdk i believe you can only use a dictionary of AssetOrArchive, so that's why I wrapped the whole archive in an apply instead of just the stringasset:

oops ignore me that is not go code :man-facepalming: i mean typescript

yeah it looks like the typescript asset and archive types each take in things like `string | Promise&lt;string&gt;` and `AssetMap | Promise&lt;AssetMap&gt;` etc, but the c# AssetArchive only takes in a `Dictionary&lt;string, AssetOrArchive&gt;` and StringAsset only accepts a `string`

I have created a github issue with some more info <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/7076>
Still working on getting a minimal workable example that actually fails similarly to my stack

ah, that’s a notable difference in the API indeed. I am not sure why it exists.

I updated the github issue  but it looks like it isn't a problem with outputs at all. it is `refresh`  that is rewriting the archive's representation in the state file. output&lt;t&gt; was just a red herring and/or a bad hunch! hah

aha! I think this has been reported before.

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6691>

haha inb4 - i can at least for now skip `pulumi refresh` and keep going. i might be able to poke around the refresh implementation at a later point but let me know if i can provide any more info to help out!