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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.