Workflow failing after updating settings about readme-chess

[GaslightGod]

Happy to report that it is working perfectly now! Thanks for all the help and the quick patch

[marcizhu]

@GaslightGod I had a look and I see you created a template, not a regular repository. I'm not sure if this is the cause of your problem but I would start by changing that. I've never seen a workflow even being executed on a template so I wouldn't be surprised if GitHub disallowed pushing from workflows on template repos.

[GaslightGod]

I generated a repository from the template. Should I just clone the repository and upload? Unless I'm misunderstanding the use of the template built-in it should generate a new repository based off yours.

[marcizhu]

You should create a repo from this template, but you should NOT make your repo a template. Keep it a "normal" repository. Currently it's marked as a template:

You can change this on your repo settings.

[GaslightGod]

After switching the issue persists privileges are still escalated

[marcizhu]

Can you double-check under Settings > Actions > General that your Workflow permissions look like this?

This is the only thing that comes to mind, I don't see why else it would fail.

[GaslightGod]

Yes those settings were correct, I actually went into tim's and his has been having issues for around 3 weeks with the same error. I'm thinking something might be deprecated in the .yml has any updates to workflow functionality changed recently that you're aware of?

[marcizhu]

My repo has been working fine for the last 3+ years so I don't think this is a general issue with workflows, nor anything deprecated in the YAML files. I use exactly the same configuration available in this repo so it should work for you as well...

[marcizhu]

@GaslightGod I managed to reproduce your issue and it should be fixed now as of the latest commit in the master branch. Could you re-create your repo to test it? Alternatively, add contents: write under the permissions section in your Chess.yml workflow file:

name: Chess

on:
  issues:
    types: [opened]

jobs:
  move:
    permissions:
      issues: write
      contents: write
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'Chess:')
...

Lets keep this issue open until we find a solution since it looks like a genuine bug to me.

[marcizhu]

Happy to help! It was a quick one 😄