ci: Fall back to github.token when COMMAND_BOT_PAT is unavailable - #759
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Dependabot- and fork-triggered pull_request runs don't receive repository or organization Actions secrets, so COMMAND_BOT_PAT resolves to an empty string and gh exits with code 4 before any check runs. The default token always exists and is sufficient for reading commit messages; the label steps keep preferring the PAT when it is available. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Andy Scherzinger <info@andy-scherzinger.de>
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Summary
Follow-up to #756, which switched
GH_TOKENtosecrets.COMMAND_BOT_PAT. Dependabot- and fork-triggeredpull_requestruns don't receive repository/organization Actions secrets, so the PAT resolves to an empty string andghexits with code 4 on the very first step (see the failing runs on #757 and #758).This adds a fallback so those runs use the default workflow token instead:
Applied to both the live workflow and the org template.
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