refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/rating-chart.yml` without `workflows` permission

Thanks for the repo. I am using this to add and commit my README.md using workflows … I am able to successfully commit and push README.md however, I am not able to push workflows YAML file which fails with a permission issue, even though commit and add works fine here. The issue is :

! [remote rejected] master -> master (refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow .github/workflows/rating-chart.yml without workflows permission)

I have tried adding a secret environment variable of a new token with workflow scope as well. There seems to be no improvement (I am guessing workflow scope in a token vs workflow permission are two separate things, but I may be wrong)

Can you let me know how this can be resolved. Here is my repo - https://github.com/sciencepal/sciencepal Here is a sample workflow (Check internal logs of add-and-commit job step) - https://github.com/sciencepal/sciencepal/runs/984418665

[sciencepal]

Found the issue !! I was doing using actions/checkout to pull the repo. It was using the default GITHUB_TOKEN. Changed it to use my personal token with workflows scope as well … worked seamlessly … only interesting thing is that now in every run my wf file is getting updated which in turn is triggering another run … in an endless loop xD. Not sure how I can prevent this 😃

[EndBug]

@sciencepal Happy to hear that 😉 Regarding the endless loop: I think the easiest way to prevent it is to exclude the workflow itself and the README file from the push event path:

on:
  push:
    paths-ignore:
      - README.md
      - .github/workflows/rating-chart.yml

If that doesn’t work for you you’ll need to find a way to detect whether the change has been made by the action…