For monitoring purposes it can be useful to be able to have access to the current FlowNode/Step via environment variables.

This could be done by only injecting the current FlowNode id as environment variable.

A more flexible approach would be a new extension point, similar to an EnvironmentContributor, but called with the current StepContext.

If this idea gets a general go-ahead I will present a prototype.

Cc svanoort, abayer

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