Grant secure-checkout pull-request write access - #120
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The README documents that secure-checkout "will write the secure global variable GH_TOKEN that can be used with the gh cli", but the token is minted with `permission-contents: write` only. create-github-app-token treats any permission-* input as an allowlist, so the token has no pull_requests access and any `gh pr` call fails with "Resource not accessible by integration". This broke PR creation in every merge-up workflow using secure-checkout (mongo-php-library, mongo-php-driver, laravel-mongodb, mongo-go-driver) since the permission was added in mongodb-labs#110. Release workflows were unaffected because releases fall under the contents permission, so the breakage went unnoticed.
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secure-checkoutdocuments:A recent change added
permission-contents: writetosecure-checkout. I expect that reduced the permissions of the created token. This permission changes appears to have broken workflows that try to create a PR: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-library/actions/runs/32268117090. This appears to affect workflows in PHP and Go.I expect we can fix this in affected workflows by creating a separate token. But since this is used by PHP and Go projects, and the README documents using the token for
gh, I expect this may more appropriately fixed here.To test: I used a temporary branch to run the workflow from my fork, which successfully drafted a PR.