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DevOps & CI/CD Bug Report

Release workflow never runs after a bot pushes a tag with GITHUB_TOKEN

Ryan Pham · Nov 5, 2025 · 6 min read

Our versioning workflow created a tag and pushed it, and the release workflow that listens for tags never started. Events created with the default GITHUB_TOKEN do not trigger new workflow runs. We switched to a GitHub App token for the push and made the release explicit with workflow_call.

Banner: a GitHub Actions workflow token with read-only scope blocked from writing a pull request comment

DevOps & CI/CD Bug Report

GitHub Actions "Resource not accessible by integration" when commenting on PRs and pushing tags

Daniel Tran · Dec 10, 2024 · 8 min read

After moving repositories into a new GitHub organization, our coverage-comment and release-tag steps failed with 403 Resource not accessible by integration. The GITHUB_TOKEN defaulted to read-only. A scoped permissions block fixed it, and fork PRs needed a different design.