diff --git a/tools/ci/apply_bot_filter.py b/tools/ci/apply_bot_filter.py
index 26f458836..29c8bb565 100755
--- a/tools/ci/apply_bot_filter.py
+++ b/tools/ci/apply_bot_filter.py
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ def parse_filter(filter_name):
     return filters
 
 
-def process_filter(filter_name, ci_name):
-    execute = True
+def process_filter(execute_by_default, filter_name, ci_name):
+    execute = execute_by_default
     
     # bot message is case insensitive (processed with lower case). so we also convert ci_name to lower case.
     ci_name = ci_name.lower()
@@ -51,8 +51,12 @@ def process_filter(filter_name, ci_name):
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    need_to_execute = process_filter("BOT_STAGE_FILTER", os.getenv("CI_JOB_STAGE")) \
-                      and process_filter("BOT_JOB_FILTER", os.getenv("CI_JOB_NAME"))
+    execute_by_default = True
+    if os.getenv("BOT_NEEDS_TRIGGER_BY_NAME", "0") == "1":
+        execute_by_default = False
+
+    need_to_execute = process_filter(True, "BOT_STAGE_FILTER", os.getenv("CI_JOB_STAGE")) \
+                      and process_filter(execute_by_default, "BOT_JOB_FILTER", os.getenv("CI_JOB_NAME"))
     if need_to_execute:
         sys.exit(0)
     else: