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Ability to pass permissions as comma separated list #322
Description
The permission-{permission_name} has to be passed one by one to the action.
This makes it impossible to wrap this action with some other logic into a composite action, that can be distributed. For example, when the credentials of a github app are not taken from a github secret but from a different secret store.
If we pass permissions as a comma separated list we can have something like the following:
outputs:
token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
... other steps go here...
- name: Generate a token
id: generate-token
uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
with:
app-id: ${{ steps.get-app-credentials.outputs.APP_ID_KEY }}
private-key: ${{ steps.get-app-credentials.outputs.PRIVATE_KEY }}
owner: ${{ inputs.repository_owner }}
repositories: ${{ inputs.repositories }}
permissions: ${{ inputs.permissions }}
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mcliment commentedon May 25, 2026
This also limits the use of new permissions that may not be in the available settings, in my case,
issue-typesis not in the list of options.