diff --git a/services/actions-runner/default.nix b/services/actions-runner/default.nix
index d652881..078281e 100644
--- a/services/actions-runner/default.nix
+++ b/services/actions-runner/default.nix
@@ -11,44 +11,59 @@
   };
 
   services.gitea-actions-runner.instances = {
-    actions1 = {
-      enable = true;
-      tokenFile = config.sops.secrets.actions-token-1.path;
-      name = "actions1.home.2rjus.net";
-      settings = {
-        log = {
-          level = "debug";
+    actions1 =
+      let
+        actions_dir = "/var/lib/actions1";
+      in
+      {
+        enable = true;
+        tokenFile = config.sops.secrets.actions-token-1.path;
+        name = "actions1.home.2rjus.net";
+        settings = {
+          log = {
+            level = "debug";
+          };
+
+          runner = {
+            file = ".runner";
+            capacity = 4;
+            timeout = "2h";
+            shutdown_timeout = "10m";
+            insecure = false;
+            fetch_timeout = "10s";
+            fetch_interval = "30s";
+          };
+
+          cache = {
+            enabled = true;
+          };
+
+          container = {
+            privileged = false;
+            workdir_parent = "${actions_dir}/container_workspace";
+          };
+          host = {
+            workdir_parent = "${actions_dir}/host_workspace";
+          };
         };
 
-        runner = {
-          file = ".runner";
-          capacity = 4;
-          timeout = "2h";
-          shutdown_timeout = "10m";
-          insecure = false;
-          fetch_timeout = "10s";
-          fetch_interval = "30s";
-        };
+        labels = [
+          "homelab"
+          "ubuntu-latest:docker://ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-latest"
+          "alpine-latest:docker://alpine:latest"
+          "nix-latest:docker://nixos/nix:latest"
+          "nixos:host"
+        ];
 
-        cache = {
-          enabled = true;
-        };
-
-        container = {
-          privileged = false;
-        };
+        url = "https://git.t-juice.club";
       };
-
-      labels = [
-        "homelab"
-        "ubuntu-latest:docker://ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-latest"
-        "alpine-latest:docker://alpine:latest"
-        "nix-latest:docker://nixos/nix:latest"
-        "nixos:host"
-      ];
-
-      url = "https://git.t-juice.club";
-    };
   };
-
+  systemd.services.gitea-runner-actions1.environment =
+    let
+      actions_dir = "/var/lib/actions1";
+    in
+    {
+      XDG_CONFIG_HOME = actions_dir;
+      XDG_CACHE_COME = "${actions_dir}/.cache";
+    };
 }