Avoiding protected branches

Hi, I’d like to create a Github Action which will create and push a commit everytime a new release is created. Although the branch (push: origin main) I’m willing to push into is protected and needs at least 2 reviews (and some additional checks), so I receive the following message (also as an admin, I can push directly to main branch):

Error: Error: Pushing to https://github.com/corpadress/repo
POST git-receive-pack (686 bytes)
remote: error: GH006: Protected branch update failed for refs/heads/main.        
remote: error: 3 of 3 required status checks are expected. At least 2 approving reviews are required by reviewers with write access.

Can you provide me some hints on how to solve this issue? I tried to provide my author_name and author_email for impersonating my admin rights, but it didn’t really work. Thanks

[arniesaha]

Thanks for the replies, folks!

Yes using a pat works! 😃

[JacekArdanowski]

Hi, I made it work with below configuration:

- name: Checkout main repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        token: _my_token_
        fetch-depth: 0
        
- name: Commit to source control
   uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7
   with:
        branch: main
        author_name: my_login
        author_email: [e-mail]
        push: origin main

Unfortunately this commit triggers CI as expected, so I guess it’s a trade-off 😉