docs: add required token permissions to CodeQL/Scorecard caller templates - #9
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…ates Reusable-workflow permissions are capped by the caller, and the security scanners need scopes not present in the default GITHUB_TOKEN (Scorecard needs id-token: write, which is never granted by default). Show the required per-job permissions in the caller templates so new forks wire them up and Scorecard does not fail at startup.
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What & why
The copy-paste caller templates for
codeql.ymlandscorecard.ymlomitted thepermissionsblock. Because a reusable workflow's permissions are capped by the caller,that omission makes Scorecard fail at startup on every fork —
reusable-scorecardneedsid-token: write(forpublish_results), which is never in the defaultGITHUB_TOKEN.Updated both caller templates to show the required per-job scopes:
codeql.yml→actions: read,contents: read,security-events: writescorecard.yml→security-events: write,id-token: write,contents: readNew forks now wire these up from the start, and the scanners are independent of the org's
default token permissions. (The live forks are getting the same fix in their own PRs.)
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