Question

A developer opens the Actions tab and sees a run of the 'deploy' workflow. The run's summary header shows the run was started by user 'octo-admin' and lists 'Triggered via manual event'. However, the deploy workflow YAML contains this triggers block:

```yaml
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 3 * * *'
```

The developer wants to confirm what actually caused THIS specific run to start. Based on the run header information alone, which trigger initiated the run?

Accepted Answer

workflow_dispatch — the run was manually triggered by octo-admin

Answer

push — because push to main is the first trigger listed in the YAML

Answer

schedule — the cron at 03:00 UTC started it and attributed it to octo-admin

Answer

It cannot be determined without downloading the raw job logs