ci: grant release.yml write scopes at the job level, not top level#98
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release.yml declared contents/id-token/attestations write at the top level, so
OpenSSF Scorecard's Token-Permissions check scored 0 ("detected GitHub workflow
tokens with excessive permissions") — a top-level write applies to every job.
Move the three write scopes onto the single pack-push job that uses them and keep
the top-level token read-only (contents: read). Behaviour is unchanged (the one
job gets exactly the same permissions), but the workflow now follows the
least-privilege shape the check rewards. English and French maintainer notes kept
in sync.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes OpenSSF Scorecard's Token-Permissions check, which scored 0 ("detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions"). The only offender was
release.yml, which declaredcontents/id-token/attestations: writeat the top level — a top-level write applies to every job, which the check flags as excessive.release.ymlhas a single job (pack-push), so the three write scopes are moved onto that job and the top-level token is left read-only (contents: read). Behaviour is identical; the workflow now follows the least-privilege shape (top-level read, writes granted per job) the check rewards.dependabot-automerge.ymlalready follows this pattern (top-level read, job-level write genuinely needed forgh pr merge --auto) and is left untouched.Note: confirmation comes from the next
scorecardrun onmain. The top-level write was the 0-driver, so this should lift the check substantially (job-level writes are the documented remediation).Type of change
Changes
release.yml: top-levelpermissionsset tocontents: read;contents: write,id-token: write,attestations: writemoved onto thepack-pushjob (comments preserved).maintainers/workflows/release.{en,fr}.md: "Permissions & security" section updated to note the top-level-read / per-job-write structure.Testing
dotnet build FirstClassErrors.sln— not relevant (workflow-config change only; no solution code touched).dotnet test FirstClassErrors.sln— not relevant.release.ymlparses as YAML and that the effective permissions are unchanged for thepack-pushjob. The release workflow itself runs only on version tags, so it is not exercised by this PR (its logic is rehearsed separately byrelease-dryrun).Documentation
doc/updateddoc/README.fr.md) updated if user-facing behavior changedrelease.en.md/release.fr.md) were kept in sync with the permission restructure.Related issues
None.
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