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glifocat 2b51a4e707 fix(workflows): label PRs from forks that follow the contributing template
On a fork PR, GITHUB_TOKEN is demoted to read-only regardless of the
workflow's permissions: block, so issues.addLabels() returns 403. The
label workflow silently works for PRs that skip the template (no
checkboxes ticked → no API call) and fails for PRs that actually
follow it — a hostile incentive against contributors who do the right
thing.

pull_request_target runs in the context of the base branch with full
declared permissions, which is the documented fix for this case. Safe
here because the workflow is metadata-only: it reads
context.payload.pull_request.body and calls addLabels. No checkout,
no PR-supplied code executes. A SECURITY comment is added above the
trigger to keep it that way.

Refs:
- https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#pull_request_target
- https://securitylab.github.com/resources/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests/

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-24 12:50:25 +02:00
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