diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index 8f9036d0..176f5f54 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: R CMD check
+name: R — R CMD check
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/citation-browser.yaml b/.github/workflows/citation-browser.yaml
index 1e7b76e8..05b80916 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/citation-browser.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/citation-browser.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Citation browser tests
+name: R — Citation browser tests
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cleanup-previews.yml b/.github/workflows/connect-previews-cleanup.yml
similarity index 95%
rename from .github/workflows/cleanup-previews.yml
rename to .github/workflows/connect-previews-cleanup.yml
index 4a0d9b9e..e1df2058 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cleanup-previews.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/connect-previews-cleanup.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Cleanup PR Previews
+name: R — Cleanup Connect PR previews
 
 on:
   pull_request:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 855f9129..8e8fa4a1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Deploy to Connect
+name: R — Deploy to Connect
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/preview-cleanup.yml b/.github/workflows/docs-previews-cleanup.yml
similarity index 98%
rename from .github/workflows/preview-cleanup.yml
rename to .github/workflows/docs-previews-cleanup.yml
index c724e346..6be2b88b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/preview-cleanup.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs-previews-cleanup.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # file on the default branch, so this job cannot run at all until it merges.
 # Its dry run defaults to true so the first manual run reports rather than
 # deletes.
-name: preview-cleanup.yml
+name: Py — Cleanup docs previews
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
     # would cancel a queued preview. It rebases onto a concurrent deploy
     # below, and the schedule collects anything the two still interleave.
     concurrency:
-      group: preview-cleanup
+      group: docs-previews-cleanup
     permissions:
       contents: write
       pull-requests: read
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
index 039a5a5e..a8ba33d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
     types: [published]
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-name: pkgdown.yaml
+name: R — Build pkgdown site
 
 permissions: read-all
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/preview-fork-notice.yml b/.github/workflows/preview-fork-notice.yml
index 45b2f962..116bd2e6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/preview-fork-notice.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/preview-fork-notice.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # pull_request_target runs with the base repository's token, which can. This workflow never checks out the pull request, and asks for no
 # permission beyond writing the comment, so none of what makes
 # pull_request_target dangerous applies: it reads no fork code and runs none.
-name: preview-fork-notice.yml
+name: Py — Fork preview notice
 
 on:
   pull_request_target:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/py-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/py-check.yaml
index 37fd7e73..b3510554 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/py-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/py-check.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: py-check
+name: Py — Package checks
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/py-docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/py-docs.yaml
index fcae3228..e024b2b0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/py-docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/py-docs.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
     paths: [pkg-py/**, docs/**, .github/scripts/docs-postprocess.py, .github/workflows/py-docs.yaml]
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-name: Python documentation build
+name: Py — Docs build
 
 permissions: read-all
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/py-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/py-release.yaml
index 5b35ea42..f2b5e909 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/py-release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/py-release.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: py-release
+name: Py — PyPI release
 
 # Publishes pkg-py to PyPI via trusted publishing (OIDC); no API token is stored.
 # PyPI's publisher config for commons names this file, so renaming it
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/scripts-check.yaml
index d3a0f61b..400a6339 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts-check.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The CI helpers under .github/scripts/ have no package to be tested by, so
 # they are tested here.
-name: scripts-check.yaml
+name: Py — Checks for CI scripts
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/verify-shared-synced.yaml b/.github/workflows/verify-shared-synced.yaml
index 05700d80..00daf888 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/verify-shared-synced.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/verify-shared-synced.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: verify-shared-synced
+name: R + Py — Verify shared artifacts are in sync
 
 # The repository root holds the source for everything both packages share; each
 # package reads a committed copy, because neither can reach outside its own