From 5d6ac154766b4625e7bb3a38e4244a2b528e4e28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:45:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify workflow equality labels

Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>
---
 .../workflows/ui/WorkflowConditionBuilder.tsx    |  2 +-
 .../ui/workflowTriggerDescription.test.mjs       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 .../workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.ts   |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/WorkflowConditionBuilder.tsx b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/WorkflowConditionBuilder.tsx
index 92c1e4f6a..690cc7d1a 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/WorkflowConditionBuilder.tsx
+++ b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/WorkflowConditionBuilder.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const OPERATOR_LABELS: Record<ConditionOperator, string> = {
   not_contains: "does not contain",
   starts_with: "starts with",
   ends_with: "ends with",
-  equals: "is exactly",
+  equals: "is",
   not_equals: "is not",
   is_not_empty: "is not empty",
   is_empty: "is empty",
diff --git a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.test.mjs b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.test.mjs
index 7bbcd1849..93924a7de 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.test.mjs
+++ b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.test.mjs
@@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ test("describes selected trigger conditions on the workflow canvas", () => {
     "Message posted containing “deploy”",
   );
 
+  assert.equal(
+    workflowTriggerDescription({
+      on: "message_posted",
+      filter: 'trigger_text == "deploy"',
+    }),
+    "Message posted is “deploy”",
+  );
+
+  assert.equal(
+    workflowTriggerDescription({
+      on: "message_posted",
+      filter: 'trigger_text != "deploy"',
+    }),
+    "Message posted is not “deploy”",
+  );
+
   assert.equal(
     workflowTriggerDescription({
       on: "message_posted",
diff --git a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.ts b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.ts
index 7f932119c..2e4af84d5 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/features/workflows/ui/workflowTriggerDescription.ts
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ function textConditionDescription(
     case "ends_with":
       return `${eventPhrase} ending with ${value}`;
     case "equals":
-      return `${eventPhrase} matching ${value}`;
+      return `${eventPhrase} is ${value}`;
     case "not_equals":
-      return `${eventPhrase} not matching ${value}`;
+      return `${eventPhrase} is not ${value}`;
     case "is_not_empty":
       return eventPhrase === "Message posted"
         ? "Text message posted"