before i lose this again, i forgot that you can also trigger a workflow from the github CLI https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_workflow_run

The given workflow file must support an on.workflow_dispatch trigger in order to be run in this way.

which might be useful here

@knaaptime -- good point. We have that on testing and build_docs.yml flows, but not here.

We should probably be adding a manual trigger to any actions. Can we think of any reason why not?