GitHub Actions: workflow run is named by its file path and fails instantly (invalid YAML)

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a run appears named `.github/workflows/x.yml` (the file path, not the workflow name) and fails immediately

github-actions · ci · yaml · workflow · verified-in-production

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The workflow file has invalid YAML (unbalanced quotes, bad indentation, or a step with both `run:` and `uses:`). GitHub cannot parse it, so it never reads the `name:` field — the failed run is labeled by the file path and the parse error shows as an annotation on the Actions tab.

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