GitHub Actions Fails When Trying to Push Changes

[guiguivoce]

Why are you starting this discussion?

Bug

What GitHub Actions topic or product is this about?

Misc

Discussion Details

I’m running into a weird problem with my GitHub Actions workflow.
Every time I push to the main branch, the workflow runs but fails when it tries to push changes back to the repo.
Here’s the error message I’m getting:

Error: Process completed with exit code 1
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': Permission denied

[phgoncalves2603]

This is actually a common one!

By default, the GITHUB_TOKEN inside GitHub Actions sometimes only has read access, which means it can’t push changes unless you explicitly grant write permissions.

Try adding this at the top of your workflow file

permissions:
  contents: write

Once you commit that, GitHub Actions should be able to push without the “Permission denied” issue.

[guiguivoce]

Yeah that works