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ci: add renovate auto-approve workflow #142

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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml
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name: Renovate auto-approve

on:
pull_request:
types:
- opened
- reopened

jobs:
approve:
uses: reqstool/.github/.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml@main

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Workflow does not contain permissions Medium

Actions job or workflow does not limit the permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN. Consider setting an explicit permissions block, using the following as a minimal starting point: {}

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AI 13 days ago

To fix the problem, add an explicit permissions block to the workflow so that the GITHUB_TOKEN is limited to the least privilege required. Since we do not see any specific operations being performed in this file (it only calls a reusable workflow), the safest generic baseline is to set all permissions to read-only (or fully disable them with permissions: {}) unless we know that Renovate auto-approval needs to write to pull requests. Auto-approving a PR usually requires pull-requests: write, and possibly contents: read to access commit/PR data.

The best minimal change without altering existing behavior is to define permissions at the workflow root so they apply to all jobs (there is only approve here). For a Renovate auto-approve workflow, a reasonable least-privilege set is:

  • contents: read – allow reading repo contents/metadata.
  • pull-requests: write – allow approving PRs.

Concretely, in .github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml, add a permissions: block between the name: and on: keys, e.g. starting at a new line after line 1. No imports or additional definitions are needed; this is just YAML configuration.

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.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml

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Run the following command in your local git repository to apply this patch
cat << 'EOF' | git apply
diff --git a/.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml b/.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml
--- a/.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 name: Renovate auto-approve
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pull-requests: write
+
 on:
   pull_request:
     types:
EOF
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
name: Renovate auto-approve

permissions:
contents: read
pull-requests: write

on:
pull_request:
types:
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