diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-core.h b/src/libostree/ostree-core.h
index 979b35a2..3e3631fb 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-core.h
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-core.h
@@ -228,6 +228,23 @@ typedef enum {
  * Since: 2017.7
  */
 #define OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_ENDOFLIFE "ostree.endoflife"
+/**
+ * OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_SOURCE_TITLE:
+ *
+ * GVariant type `s`. This should hold a relatively short single line value
+ * containing a human-readable "source" for a commit, intended to be displayed
+ * near the origin ref.  This is particularly useful for systems that inject
+ * content into an OSTree commit from elsewhere - for example, generating from
+ * an OCI or qcow2 image. Or if generating from packages, the enabled repository
+ * names and their versions.
+ *
+ * Try to keep this key short (e.g. < 80 characters) and human-readable; if you
+ * desire machine readable data, consider injecting separate metadata keys.
+ *
+ * Since: 2017.13
+ */
+#define OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_SOURCE_TITLE "ostree.source-title"
+
 /**
  * OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_REF_BINDING:
  *
diff --git a/src/ostree/ot-admin-builtin-status.c b/src/ostree/ot-admin-builtin-status.c
index 8d180a6a..b6fc7117 100644
--- a/src/ostree/ot-admin-builtin-status.c
+++ b/src/ostree/ot-admin-builtin-status.c
@@ -114,8 +114,12 @@ ot_admin_builtin_status (int argc, char **argv, OstreeCommandInvocation *invocat
             commit_metadata = g_variant_get_child_value (commit, 0);
 
           const char *version = NULL;
+          const char *source_title = NULL;
           if (commit_metadata)
-            (void) g_variant_lookup (commit_metadata, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_VERSION, "&s", &version);
+            {
+              (void) g_variant_lookup (commit_metadata, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_VERSION, "&s", &version);
+              (void) g_variant_lookup (commit_metadata, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_SOURCE_TITLE, "&s", &source_title);
+            }
 
           GKeyFile *origin = ostree_deployment_get_origin (deployment);
 
@@ -152,6 +156,8 @@ ot_admin_builtin_status (int argc, char **argv, OstreeCommandInvocation *invocat
                 g_print ("    origin: <unknown origin type>\n");
               else
                 g_print ("    origin refspec: %s\n", origin_refspec);
+              if (source_title)
+                g_print ("    `- %s\n", source_title);
             }
 
           if (deployment_get_gpg_verify (deployment, repo))
diff --git a/tests/admin-test.sh b/tests/admin-test.sh
index f5d33a6f..dafbc79b 100644
--- a/tests/admin-test.sh
+++ b/tests/admin-test.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-echo "1..$((22 + ${extra_admin_tests:-0}))"
+echo "1..$((23 + ${extra_admin_tests:-0}))"
 
 function validate_bootloader() {
     cd ${test_tmpdir};
@@ -277,6 +277,14 @@ assert_streq ${curr_rev} ${head_rev}
 
 echo "ok upgrade with and without override-commit"
 
+${CMD_PREFIX} ostree --repo=${test_tmpdir}/testos-repo commit  --add-metadata-string "version=${version}" \
+              --add-metadata-string 'ostree.source-title=libtest os_repository_new_commit()' -b testos/buildmaster/x86_64-runtime \
+              -s "Build" --tree=dir=${test_tmpdir}/osdata
+${CMD_PREFIX} ostree admin upgrade --os=testos
+${CMD_PREFIX} ostree admin status | tee status.txt
+assert_file_has_content_literal status.txt '`- libtest os_repository_new_commit()'
+echo "ok source title"
+
 deployment=$(${CMD_PREFIX} ostree admin --sysroot=sysroot --print-current-dir)
 ${CMD_PREFIX} ostree --sysroot=sysroot remote add --set=gpg-verify=false remote-test-physical file://$(pwd)/testos-repo
 assert_not_has_file ${deployment}/etc/ostree/remotes.d/remote-test-physical.conf testos-repo
diff --git a/tests/test-admin-deploy-uboot.sh b/tests/test-admin-deploy-uboot.sh
index 7791360e..ec031477 100755
--- a/tests/test-admin-deploy-uboot.sh
+++ b/tests/test-admin-deploy-uboot.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ extra_admin_tests=1
 . $(dirname $0)/admin-test.sh
 
 cd ${test_tmpdir}
+# Note this test actually requires a checksum change to /boot,
+# because adding the uEnv.txt isn't currently covered by the
+# "bootcsum".
+os_repository_new_commit "uboot test" "test upgrade multiple kernel args"
 mkdir -p osdata/usr/lib/ostree-boot
 cat << 'EOF' > osdata/usr/lib/ostree-boot/uEnv.txt
 loaduimage=load mmc ${bootpart} ${loadaddr} ${kernel_image}