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The Marketplace rejects ghstats as an action name, so the repo, Go module, binary, and action share the name ghglance instead. The demo workflow keeps reading the existing GHSTATS_TOKEN repo secret.
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# Can a Marketplace action name match its repo name?
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Researched 2026-10-03 13:09 (Asia/Saigon).
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## Answer
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Yes. GitHub never checks the action's `name` against repository names,
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including the action's own repo. The repo `tiennm99/ghstats` is not why
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`ghstats` was rejected. The name collides with something else on GitHub.
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## Official rule
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From [Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/create-and-publish-actions/publish-in-github-marketplace),
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the `name` in `action.yml`:
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- must be unique;
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- cannot match an action name already published on GitHub Marketplace;
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- cannot match a GitHub user or organization, unless that user or
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organization owner is the one publishing;
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- cannot match a GitHub Marketplace category;
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- cannot be a reserved GitHub feature name.
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None of these rules involve repositories. The owner exception covers only
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user and organization names. For example, `tiennm99` could publish an action
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called `tiennm99`, but nothing similar applies to repo names.
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## Why `ghstats` conflicts
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Public checks made on 2026-10-03 found no visible conflict:
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- `gh api users/ghstats` returned 404, so there's no visible user or org.
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- `github.com/marketplace/actions/ghstats` returned 404, so there's no visible listing.
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GitHub still enforces the name, so it must be held by something the public
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can't see. The likely holders are:
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1. **A suspended, flagged or otherwise hidden account named `ghstats`.**
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The REST API returns 404 for these accounts, but the name stays reserved.
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2. **A delisted or unpublished Marketplace action named `ghstats`.** It no
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longer has a public page but still holds the name.
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3. **A reserved name** on GitHub's internal list.
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This repo's own history supports this: `docs/deployment-guide.md` recorded
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that "the bare `ghstats` listing was taken" before this session.
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Other projects have hit the same error and solved it the same way, by
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renaming the action. Examples:
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[baseliner-action#9](https://github.com/baselinerhq/baseliner-action/pull/9),
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[simulation-action#12](https://github.com/roarkhq/simulation-action/pull/12),
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[ChatGPT-CodeReview#5](https://github.com/arepresas/ChatGPT-CodeReview/pull/5).
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## Next steps
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1. Pick a different `name`. `ghstats-cards` is the safest choice because it
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was used for this repo's listing before.
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2. The listing name has no effect on how people call the action:
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`uses: tiennm99/ghstats@v1` keeps working because it comes from the repo
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path.
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3. Rename in `action.yml`, update the README badge, the listing link and the
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deployment guide, then tag a new release and publish it from the release page.
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## Unresolved questions
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- Which of the three possible holders owns `ghstats` can't be found out
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from outside GitHub. GitHub Support could say whether it can be released.
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