How People Translate Quickly | GitHub Actions Workflow Labels: Translate CI Status Without Changing Jobs

To translate GitHub Actions workflow labels quickly, edit only the intended human-facing display fields—such as workflow name, suitable run-name text, job name and step name—while preserving the YAML keys, job identifiers, triggers, dependencies, expressions and executable commands. A translated label can help an international team understand a test or deployment run, but it must not silently change the automation. Review the finished workflow as both language and code, then validate it in a controlled repository or branch before promoting the change.

A GitHub Actions workflow file is not a language dictionary. The same YAML document contains prose that appears in the Actions interface and configuration that GitHub uses to schedule work. jobs.build.name is a visible job label; jobs.build is the identifier other jobs may reference with needs: build. Renaming the latter to a translated phrase is not a cosmetic edit. Translating run, uses, expression names, branch filters or with parameter keys can break the actual process, even if the new phrase sounds natural.

This guide teaches an exact, bounded job: make workflow status understandable to multilingual colleagues without altering what code runs. It uses a fictional school website's build-and-check workflow, gives structurally meaningful YAML examples, separates display localization from true per-user language support, explains failure diagnostics, supplies a changed-context transfer exercise, and ends with a practical release checklist. The GitHub workflow syntax and expression-context documentation are the controlling sources; these examples are teaching fixtures, not instructions to deploy an unreviewed workflow.

Define what the international teammate needs to understand

Imagine a Singapore education team collaborating with editors and developers who work in English, Spanish and Japanese. The Actions tab contains runs with abbreviated names such as ci, build and check; a nontechnical reviewer cannot easily tell whether the workflow has tested lesson-page links or published a site update. The immediate problem is not to translate the entire repository. It is to make the identity, scope and current state of a run understandable enough that the reviewer can ask the right question before a release.

Start with a tour of the Actions interface. Record the workflow title, the displayed run name, each job's label and the step labels the reviewer sees after opening a job. Then ask what decisions users actually make: identify the correct branch, distinguish validation from deployment, see whether the failing step concerns links or content rendering, and know whom to contact. An editor who sees “Release published” when the workflow merely built a preview could reasonably assume that readers can view the update. That would be a communication defect with operational consequences.

Keep this job separate from translating console output, repository documentation or app UI strings. A shell program may emit English logs that the workflow label does not control. Translating a step name will not translate its stdout. A good scope document says which GitHub display surfaces are in scope, which messages are generated by tools outside the workflow, and which output values remain stable. This saves time by avoiding a hopeless search-and-replace through every string in the YAML file.

Build a field map: display text versus executable contract

GitHub's workflow syntax distinguishes the top-level workflow name, optional run-name, job-level name and step-level name from many configuration fields. These display-oriented names are usually appropriate candidates for editorial improvement. A manually triggered workflow can also have descriptions for workflow_dispatch inputs, which may help people understand the form. However, the input identifiers and choice values are part of the control contract, and changing them can alter or break downstream expressions and scripts.

Protect the top-level on events, the jobs object keys, each job's runs-on, needs, if, permissions, environment, concurrency, strategy, matrix, steps[*].id, uses, run, env and action-specific with inputs unless a separate developer-approved behavior change is intended. Some of these fields contain ordinary words. An environment named production, for example, can also determine deployment protections and secrets access. It should not become a translated display word just because users prefer a different language.

The safest way to plan an edit is a two-column map: “what the user reads” and “what the workflow engine interprets.” Add a third category for values that are both visible and operational. The top-level run-name can include GitHub expressions; a human-readable phrase around those expressions may be edited, but the expression and the data it reveals are not mere copy. A friendly localization review must not be confused with permission to redesign repository governance.

Read the exact YAML path, not an approximate word match

Consider a YAML line containing name: Verify reading links. At the root of the workflow, name describes the workflow. Under a job, it names the job shown in the interface. Under a step, it labels that step. A blind search for the word name cannot tell the difference between those positions, nor can it distinguish a custom action input named name from a display label. Parse the hierarchy and identify the owner of each candidate value before editing.

This is why extracting translation candidates by regular expression alone is fragile. YAML may contain quoted strings, comments, multiline literals and expressions with punctuation. A search-and-replace that changes every occurrence of build could modify a job identifier, a shell command, a cache path or a package artifact name. Even a change that leaves YAML parseable may break the workflow's meaning. The review must compare tree paths and preserve a whitelist of allowed changes rather than accepting any syntactically valid output.

If no automated YAML-aware workflow is available, a human reviewer can still work reliably by highlighting the complete key path for every proposed edit. Record workflow.name, workflow.run-name, jobs.verify.name or jobs.verify.steps[2].name, along with the original and target phrase. The reviewer should then compare a focused diff against the protected fields. The workflow's actual identifiers should stay familiar to the developers even if its visible labels are translated for colleagues.

A minimal workflow example and what may change

The following example illustrates the ownership boundary. The visible text says what is being checked; identifiers such as verify, checkout, test and main remain literal configuration. A production repository would additionally require version-pinned action choices, permission review and its own tests. This example deliberately uses harmless commands to show where code begins and copy ends; it does not represent a complete deployment pipeline.

name: Reading-site checks
run-name: Check lesson links on ${{ github.ref_name }}
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  verify:
    name: Verify pages
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Show selected revision
        run: echo "$GITHUB_SHA"
      - name: Check lesson fixtures
        run: echo "Fixture check belongs here"

A controlled Spanish display edit could change name: Comprobaciones del sitio de lectura, run-name: Revisar enlaces de lecciones en ${{ github.ref_name }}, the job's visible name and the two step name values. It should not change the verify job identifier, push event, branches filter or shell command. In this illustration the workflow remains a fixed Spanish display for every reader; it is not an automatic locale switch tied to each GitHub user's interface settings.

Check the semantic claim of the label as carefully as its YAML position. The example's last step is merely an echo, so calling it a comprehensive link validator would overstate what the workflow does. Before adopting a label such as “Check all links,” confirm that the real step actually performs that test. A translated label is a promise to the human reader about the workflow's meaning. The best label is neither the shortest string nor the most impressive one; it is the most accurate concise account of the observable action.

GitHub Actions does not become per-user multilingual through label edits

A common misconception is that a workflow can include several translations of name and GitHub will select one based on the viewer's language. The standard workflow YAML described in GitHub's documentation supplies display fields, not a Chrome-style _locales directory for user-specific workflow names. A workflow label written in Spanish appears as the same configured label to users who open that workflow; it does not automatically become Japanese for a Japanese colleague.

Teams can solve the communication problem in different ways. They may keep a clear English canonical label accompanied by a bilingual phrase, maintain a translated runbook that explains stable workflow identifiers, or standardize one operational language for shared automation while translating explanatory documentation. Each option has costs. Bilingual run names can become too long; changing a canonical label can disrupt established support habits; an external runbook may be harder to find at the moment of a failure. Select the approach based on actual team needs rather than claiming a built-in locale feature that is absent.

Do not create multiple copied workflows solely to produce one per language unless there is a deliberate technical reason to run those separate workflows. Duplicate jobs may consume runner time, trigger extra deployments, publish artifacts twice or confuse branch protections. One stable workflow with better display text is usually safer than several nearly identical workflows that can drift. When localization requires multiple languages, a linked glossary or bilingual operations guide often meets the reader's need without multiplying execution paths.

Preserve event triggers and their exact values

The on section controls which events start a workflow. A translator may see words such as push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch and schedule and assume they are ordinary English. They are not. They are event identifiers with defined meanings. Replacing them with translated terms does not create a localized trigger; it changes the YAML contract and can stop the workflow from running under its intended conditions.

The same caution applies to branch filters. A branch named main is an identifier in the repository. A translated branch name in a label might help a reader understand it, but changing the filter from main to a new word could cause the workflow to ignore actual pushes. Paths and tags are similarly operational. In a content site, failing to run a verification workflow after a main-branch update may leave broken links undetected. A small, attractive language edit could therefore remove a meaningful safety barrier.

Build a regression check that extracts the on section before and after localization and compares it for equality. If the original workflow triggers on a pull request and a push to main, the target must still do so. Do not rely only on a green check from one manually triggered run. A workflow_dispatch test can succeed while a malformed or changed push trigger fails silently in the next real release cycle.

Keep job identifiers stable even when job names change

Under jobs, each map key is a unique job identifier. Other jobs can depend on it with needs, and expressions may refer to its outputs. A job's optional name is a separate display field. Suppose jobs.verify is a predecessor of jobs.publish_preview, which uses needs: verify. Translating the identifier into another word without updating references breaks a dependency. Even a developer-approved rename can have broader implications across reusable workflows, required checks, support scripts and documentation.

The translator's ordinary scope does not include those changes. Write a label such as “Comprobar páginas” under the existing verify key, and preserve the key itself. When reviewing the diff, compare the set of jobs and their dependency graph as invariants. The rule applies equally to a matrix job whose displayed name may include an expression that distinguishes operating systems or language variants. If the translation drops the matrix value, several distinct checks can appear with indistinguishable names.

One frequent defect is an overly general job label. “Completed” sounds positive but does not explain which task ran, and it can be misleading if used as a name for a job that may later fail. Prefer activity names such as “Validate navigation” or “Build preview,” leaving GitHub to present pass or fail status. The display name should identify the work; the platform's status indicator should report its outcome. Do not conflate these roles in another language.

Protect expressions when translating `run-name`

The optional run-name can include GitHub expressions that GitHub evaluates using permitted contexts. A phrase such as Check lesson links on ${{ github.ref_name }} is part prose and part executable interpolation. The surrounding words can be translated. The expression delimiters, property names and allowed context usage must remain exactly valid. Changing github.ref_name into a translated identifier is not an equivalent grammatical choice; it becomes an invalid or unintended expression.

The value may originate from a branch name or manually supplied input. That data should not be treated as trustworthy prose. A run name that includes an untrusted input can expose confusing or inappropriate text in the Actions interface. Translation cannot sanitize it by replacing the expression with a vague placeholder; the developer must decide which values are suitable for display and what validation the workflow requires. GitHub's security guidance warns that certain context values may be attacker-controlled, especially in pull request workflows.

In the test fixture, use different branch and input values to see whether the translated sentence still reads naturally. A short branch named main, a long feature branch and a value containing punctuation can expose truncation or awkward word order. Confirm that the expression resolves to the same value before and after the edit. A successful YAML parse proves neither that the expression is permitted at that location nor that the dynamic name is understandable in the interface.

Step display names are not shell comments

A step's name helps a reader find the relevant action or command inside a job. The run field executes shell commands; uses identifies an action or reusable component. Translating the display label can improve a support experience. Translating the shell command or action reference may make the workflow fail, access the wrong tool or emit unexpected artifacts. A user who needs to know why a lesson link check failed benefits from “Check internal links” more than a generic “Run script,” but that improvement belongs in the step label.

An action input under with can also look like natural language. Whether a value is display text or an operational argument depends on the action's own schema. A path to ./site, a token, a file glob or a configuration flag should remain protected. A custom action may accept a human-facing message, but the translator cannot infer that from its English appearance. Ask the action owner or inspect the official documentation before adding it to the translation scope.

As an editorial practice, write names that describe the intent of the step, not the exact shell syntax. “Check reading-list links” is clearer than “Execute Python,” provided the command genuinely checks those links. If the step only prepares a cache, calling it a validation step is wrong. Good labels make debugging faster because readers can map a failed check back to a meaningful operational purpose.

Translate manual-run descriptions without changing inputs

A workflow_dispatch form may invite a team member to choose a preview target, release channel or content batch. Human-facing descriptions can help prevent accidental submissions. Yet input names and permitted values are often referenced in expressions and scripts. Translating an input key such as deploy_target or an option value such as staging may change which branch of the workflow executes. The source owner must approve any behavior-changing input redesign separately.

Consider a form with deploy_target choices staging and production, plus a description saying which environment receives a preview. An unclear translation might imply that production is just another private preview. That would be dangerous. The safer edit improves the description while leaving the choice tokens unchanged and adding context such as “Choose the environment; production is visible to the public” if that is a verified fact. The exact phrasing must come from the owner of the workflow and match its actual deployment rules.

Test the form in a non-production context. Verify that a reviewer understands the consequences of each choice and that the selected value is passed unchanged to the job. A run can start successfully while targeting the wrong environment because someone misread the label. The critical QA question is whether a person makes the same intended decision in both languages, not whether a translation is a literal word-for-word match.

Do not translate secrets, environment names or permission scopes

A workflow's secrets references, environment identifiers and permission scopes are security and authorization contracts. A translator may be tempted to make secrets.DEPLOY_TOKEN look more readable, but the name identifies a configured secret. Altering it can cause an empty or unavailable value, break authentication or tempt developers into unsafe diagnostic output. Permission declarations such as contents: read have defined meanings and should not be localized as if they were explanatory text.

An environment named production may also control required reviewers and other protection rules. Its name is an operational identifier, not a caption. A translated job display name can explain the deployment target without changing the actual environment declaration. If the team wants to rename environments or secrets, that is an explicit repository administration project requiring dependency and security review, not a translation pass.

Keep sensitive information out of localization screenshots and fixtures. Use nonsecret dummy values and redacted logs. A translator may need context about what a deployment does, but does not need the token used to perform it. Principle-of-least-access review also makes the workflow safer because the person responsible for words does not have to possess production deployment credentials to approve their wording.

Distinguish validation, preview and production in every language

Educational content workflows often have three distinct stages: validating a manuscript, building a site preview and publishing a publicly accessible update. These stages can be confused when labels are shortened or translated without process context. “Ready for review” is not the same as “Released.” “Preview generated” is not the same as “Preview approved.” “Deployed successfully” may refer to infrastructure rather than the correctness of content. Ask the workflow owner for a clear state diagram before choosing labels.

A reviewer should be able to answer: What artifact did the workflow create? Where is it accessible? What remains to be approved? Does a failure block publication? These questions are more useful than comparing English and Spanish strings in isolation. A well-chosen step name can say “Build private preview,” while the final gate may say “Publish approved site.” But the labels must only promise actions actually performed by the configured jobs.

Avoid making a status label reassuring by default. A step called “Checks passed” is misleading when the job starts and later fails. Names should describe work to be performed, while the platform displays result status. If a workflow genuinely contains an explicit verification gate whose script exits nonzero on errors, say “Verify lesson links.” That description remains truthful before, during and after execution, regardless of the pass/fail outcome.

Use a protected diff as the primary technical QA tool

Begin with a known-good workflow file from version control. The translation candidate should produce a small diff in whitelisted display fields. Review each modified line and check that no triggers, identifiers, shell commands or settings changed. A YAML parser can catch malformed indentation or quoting, but it does not establish that the workflow still performs the same task. Parse and compare semantic structures as a stronger check, then use GitHub's official workflow validation mechanisms and a controlled test run where appropriate.

A conservative diff rule rejects all changes outside the agreed paths. That is easier to audit than hoping the reviewer notices one altered branch filter among dozens of localized labels. If the translation requires quoting because the target phrase contains a colon or another YAML-sensitive character, that syntax edit is part of making the display value valid. The reviewer should verify that the resulting parsed string is precisely the intended phrase and does not accidentally create a nested YAML object.

Do not assume one parser's behavior fully represents GitHub Actions. General YAML libraries may interpret certain tokens differently depending on their YAML version, while GitHub's workflow engine has its own rules and schema. A local parser is useful for basic structure, but the release candidate needs platform-specific validation. Testing a changed file in a controlled branch and inspecting the Actions interface provides evidence that the visible fields resolved properly.

Diagnostic case: a translated workflow no longer triggers

A workflow ran correctly before localization. After the edit, pushes to main stop producing runs. Inspect the complete diff before blaming GitHub. The source file may have had on: push changed into a translated word, the branch filter may have been renamed, or an indentation change may have moved the event declaration. The correction is to restore the exact triggering contract from the known-good revision, then reapply only allowed display-string edits.

Also check whether the updated workflow file is at the path GitHub actually loads from .github/workflows/. Translating or renaming a file path is not the same operation as changing a display title. A filename change can interact with repository settings, external documentation or workflows that reference a reusable workflow file. Do not infer that a YAML document with a friendly translated filename will preserve every integration that previously referred to its old path.

Test the restored workflow against the intended event in a safe environment. One successful manual run is insufficient if the original event was a push. Record both the expected trigger and the observed event. If a protected branch is involved, use the repository's approved test and review process rather than pushing a speculative fix directly to production.

Diagnostic case: jobs show the same name but do different work

A translated workflow has two jobs labelled “Build.” One validates pages; the other packages a preview. Both may display green icons, and a reviewer cannot tell which one failed when only part of the process succeeds. The underlying jobs are still distinct because their identifiers differ. The defect is the loss of meaningful differentiation in human labels. Repair the display names to describe each job's purpose without renaming their identifiers or changing dependencies.

Matrix builds can create a similar problem. A job name may include a matrix value that distinguishes operating systems, languages or software versions. A translator may remove the expression to make the label shorter, causing multiple matrix jobs to look alike. Preserve the dynamic value and arrange the surrounding words for clarity. The goal is to retain the same information the source exposed, not merely to produce a grammatically tidy sentence.

After the repair, inspect the Actions UI with an example run containing multiple jobs. Ask an editor unfamiliar with the configuration to identify which check verifies links and which builds the preview. If the editor can answer without opening each job, the label has become useful. If not, improve the source taxonomy and glossary rather than forcing increasingly literal translations.

Diagnostic case: manual deployment selects the wrong target

A reviewer triggers a workflow intended for staging, but the description suggests that selecting production creates a preview visible only internally. The workflow runs as configured and may even succeed. The bug is not in the YAML engine. It is a misleading promise in the translated description. Determine the actual deployment visibility, approval gates and consequences from the owner before rewriting the text. Do not simply reverse the choice values to make the form look intuitive.

The safe repair preserves the input key, choice tokens and deployment logic, then corrects the description and any supporting runbook. If the team considers the original source ambiguous, update its wording through normal repository review so that all languages describe one consistent operation. A localization-only change that conceals an unsafe workflow design is not enough. The product may need a technical guard such as a required reviewer or a protected environment.

Test with a non-production fixture and verify the resulting target. A reviewer should identify the intended action, choose the right option, see the configured target in the run details and understand whether publication actually occurred. The QA evidence must include this decision path rather than just a screenshot of a translated form.

Diagnostic case: an expression is translated as English prose

The source has run-name: Validate ${{ github.ref_name }}. After localization, the visible run name contains a literal broken expression or an empty value. Compare the submitted YAML with the original and restore the exact interpolation syntax. The expression delimiter and context property are not natural-language tokens. If the surrounding translation includes characters requiring YAML quoting, add quotation safely without changing the expression itself.

A second issue can arise when the expression evaluates correctly but the sentence makes no sense for certain branch names or inputs. That is a content design concern. Try several fixtures, including a short branch, a long branch and a branch with punctuation. If the label is unreadable, modify the surrounding phrase while retaining the meaningful variable. Where values may be sensitive or untrusted, the developer must decide whether they should appear in a run name at all.

Document which dynamic value was tested and the observed output. Translators should not claim to have validated every possible expression by looking at the YAML source. A test run reveals both rendering and behavior, and the protected diff establishes that a display edit did not inadvertently change execution logic.

Worked school-site scenario: a new glossary page

A teacher has prepared a revised glossary page for older students. A developer's workflow checks Markdown links, builds a static preview and reports whether the preview is ready for editorial review. The English workflow is titled “Site CI,” with jobs named check and preview. Spanish-speaking editors need clearer terms. A useful plan is to improve the visible workflow name, label the first job “Validate links and files,” and label the second “Build review preview,” subject to the actual scripts performed by those jobs.

Before writing the translation, walk through a representative failure. One source link points to a missing page. The first job should fail or report the broken link according to its real implementation. The second job's behavior may depend on needs: check; that relationship should not be changed by localization. A reviewer seeing the failed step should understand that a link problem blocked or qualified the preview, not that the student's vocabulary page was already published with a defect.

At review time, a project owner checks whether every translated label describes a true action. A developer compares the trigger, job keys, permissions, environment and commands against the known-good workflow. A language reviewer verifies terminology across the runbook and Actions screen. A release reviewer checks a real test run. The combined process is faster than asking the translator to understand and rewrite the entire CI configuration; each person verifies the contract they actually own.

Changed-context transfer exercise: translation for an automated backup

A different repository uses a scheduled workflow to back up class files. Its jobs are snapshot, verify_checksum and notify, and the final job depends on both prior jobs. The French-language request is to rename these jobs so nontechnical administrators know which step created the backup and which verified the archive. During translation, someone changes needs: [snapshot, verify_checksum] to use translated names and writes “Backup secured” as the first step's display name even though verification happens later.

Your task is to repair the configuration without pretending the workflow has completed work it has not yet done. Decide which strings belong to the technical graph, which are display descriptions and which might expose sensitive backup destinations. Explain how to test that a failed checksum still prevents an inappropriate success notification. Do not use any real student files for this exercise; a synthetic archive is sufficient to test dependencies and display labels.

The answer is to retain snapshot, verify_checksum, notify and the original needs references unchanged. Translate only the human-facing names, using a stage description such as “Create backup archive” for the first job, “Verify backup checksum” for the second, and “Send verification result” for the third if those claims match the scripts. A controlled failure in the checksum job should produce the expected downstream behavior. The reviewer should inspect the Actions graph, not just individual strings, to confirm that translated labels preserved the operational story.

A practical release checklist for multilingual operations

Confirm that the proposed edit is a display-only change and that no one expects automatic user-locale switching from the YAML file. Identify every target path, maintain a stable terminology glossary, and confirm that each label accurately describes the configured action. Compare the old and new files with a protected diff. Preserve events, branch filters, jobs, dependencies, expressions, permissions, environments, action references, commands and input contracts. Reject unexpected changes for independent developer review.

Validate YAML structure with suitable tooling and test using GitHub's actual workflow system in a controlled branch or repository. Check the Actions tab for the workflow name, run name, job names and step names. Trigger the event the workflow is actually supposed to handle, not merely an unrelated manual event. Use safe failure fixtures so an editor can understand a failed check and a blocked preview without involving production credentials or live student data.

Archive the accepted wording, the workflow file revision and test-run evidence. For a multilingual team, maintain a linked glossary or runbook if the display language is shared rather than per-user. Review labels again when the underlying scripts change. Good translation is maintained truth: when a job gains a new function, a once-correct label may become misleading even though the YAML remains valid.

Limits and summary

This is a workflow-display translation guide, not permission to edit someone else's repository and not a substitute for CI security review. GitHub Actions behavior and supported expression contexts depend on the documented workflow syntax, repository settings and any external actions invoked. Different runner environments can produce different logs. An editor can improve a displayed name without altering any of those technical dependencies, provided the edit remains inside the agreed boundary and is verified through an actual test run.

The essential method is to translate the human reader's map of the workflow while leaving the workflow's execution map intact. Better names should identify what is being tested, what is being built and what remains unapproved. If the translation makes an automated operation sound more complete, safer or public than it really is, the team has lost meaning even if every job still passes.

Frequently asked questions

1. Which GitHub Actions fields are normally safe to translate?

Workflow, job and step display names are common candidates, as are appropriate descriptions in a manual-run form. Always confirm the exact YAML path and whether the value contains an expression. Do not edit operational identifiers as part of a display translation.

2. Can each teammate see the workflow name in their own language?

Standard workflow YAML provides configured names, not a built-in user-locale dictionary. A translated value is shared in the workflow definition. Teams may choose a bilingual label or a localized runbook rather than copying automation by language.

3. Is a job's `name` the same as its key under `jobs`?

No. The job key, such as verify, is an identifier that dependencies and expressions can reference. The job's optional name is displayed in GitHub's UI. Preserve the identifier unless a separately reviewed workflow refactor is intended.

4. Why must `on` and event names stay unchanged?

They are part of GitHub Actions syntax. Changing push or workflow_dispatch into another language does not localize the trigger; it changes the workflow configuration and can prevent the intended event from starting the job.

5. May I translate the text around `${{ github.ref_name }}`?

Yes, when the field supports that expression and the surrounding string is human-readable. Keep the expression syntax and property name intact. Test the actual displayed result with representative branch values.

6. Does changing a step label translate the shell log?

No. A step's display name and the output produced by its command are separate. Translating tool-generated logs requires work on the tool or its messages and may not be supported by the tool at all.

7. Can input choice values be translated?

Treat choice values as operational until the workflow owner verifies every reference and consequence. A human-facing description can explain the choices without changing the tokens that scripts or expressions use.

8. How can a translation create a deployment risk?

A misleading description might persuade a reviewer to select production instead of staging, or a changed environment name might bypass expected workflow configuration. Protect identifiers and verify human decisions as well as executable behavior.

9. Is a successful YAML parse enough for approval?

No. The file can parse while changed triggers, dependencies or commands alter behavior. Review the protected diff, use platform-specific validation and observe a representative workflow run.

10. What evidence should be kept after a label change?

Keep the source revision, approved wording, affected YAML paths, test-run references and screenshots showing the actual Actions interface. Record who reviewed the meaning and who checked the execution contract.

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