access vars or jobs context in run name or a PUT API for updating run name

[rwader-swi]

Currently the name in workflow run has only access to {{ inputs }} and {{ github }} contexts, which is not very useful as we might want to display additional info which are processed in the job steps.

• either give access to {{ job }} context. It might solve this as it will update name after the job step is completed (from outputs)
• or atleast access the {{ vars }} context, that we ultimately update in some job steps
• If not that then atleast a PUT API endpoint for updating the run's metadata like run-name.

Neither of the above are avaialable 🙂

The users have to go inside every run to check such metadata, because its not displayed in name.

Essentially what differs each run is not just the inputs, but also some processing done from inputs.

For example in my usecase we update our software version for every release run by 1. And we want to display in the run name.

Will appreciate if anyone takes look into this feature ASAP!!!! And many people want this to be fixed.

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[mmichna]

i think this is very useful feature allow update workflow run-name

[marekkordik]

I would love this feature

[btungut]

Hi GitHub Actions Team,

It would be incredibly beneficial to have the ability to dynamically edit run_name within workflows. This feature would enhance traceability, improve monitoring, and streamline debugging by allowing more descriptive and contextual run identifiers. Please consider adding this functionality to make our CI/CD pipelines even more powerful.

Thank you!