feat: report token permissions via env var - #4662
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Set a
GITHUB_TOKEN_PERMISSIONSenvironment variable that reports the default github token's permissions, e.g.Why
Background: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/73397
For authors of reusable actions, there's not a good way to know which permissions are available to the github token. Although the permissions do appear in the output (under
Set up job), you can't get at them programmatically unless you do silly things like parse theWorker_*.logfile to extract it from the job message 🙈By making those permissions readable from the environment, actions can do things like: