Document minimum required token permissions
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- github-actions
- Domain
- documentation, security
Research direction
Start with README.md and the related SECURITY.md threat model section T5: Token Exposure. Add the minimum token permissions, an example workflow with an explicit permissions block, explanations for each permission, and guidance on fine-grained PATs or GitHub App tokens. Done means all listed acceptance criteria are documented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Summary
Document the minimum required GitHub token permissions for using this action.
Background
From the security threat model (T5: Token Exposure), users should understand exactly what permissions are needed to reduce blast radius if credentials are compromised.
Acceptance Criteria
- Add a section to README.md documenting minimum token permissions
- Include example workflow snippet with explicit
permissionsblock - Explain the purpose of each permission:
contents: write- Create branches and commitspull-requests: write- Create pull requestsissues: write- Add labels to PRs (optional)
- Recommend fine-grained PATs or GitHub App tokens over
GITHUB_TOKENwhere possible
Priority
High - Security documentation
Related
- SECURITY.md threat model (T5)
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Avg merge
- 3d 6h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
Getting set up
This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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