Fix Scorecard authentication with GITHUB_TOKEN - #15
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Liang-Chun Tsai (ltsai-dev) merged 1 commit intoAug 18, 2026
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Remove the expiring personal token override and grant the private-repository read permissions required by Scorecard. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
The Scorecard workflow's personal access token has expired, causing every run since July 6 to fail with
401 Bad credentials. Switch to GitHub Actions' automatic short-lived token to eliminate manual token rotation.Changes
SCORECARD_TOKENinput so Scorecard uses the workflow-issuedGITHUB_TOKEN.actions: readfor SARIF upload.Test plan
The resulting workflow matches the known-good workflow already merged and validated in
microsoft/thinkingbox:The failing run in this repository is https://github.com/microsoft/thinkingbox-data/actions/runs/32084766638/job/95554904114.
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