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Copilot AI commented Jan 22, 2026

The id-token: write permission enables OIDC token generation for cloud provider authentication (AWS, GCP, Azure) and doesn't modify repository content, making it safe for strict mode.

Changes

  • Excluded id-token from dangerous permissions validator in findWritePermissions() - it now skips PermissionIdToken when checking for write permissions that require the feature flag
  • Added test coverage for id-token: write behavior in both general and strict modes
  • Fixed pre-existing test bugs: removed invalid "write" shorthand test (not a valid GitHub Actions shorthand), corrected MCP container network validation test expectations

Example

Workflows can now use id-token: write in strict mode for OIDC authentication:

---
name: Deploy to AWS
on: push
strict: true
permissions:
  id-token: write      # Now allowed - used for AWS authentication
  contents: read
---

This continues to block repository-modifying permissions like contents: write, issues: write, and pull-requests: write in strict mode.

Original prompt

Allow idtoken: write permission in strict mode.


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Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Allow idtoken write permission in strict mode Allow id-token: write permission in strict mode Jan 22, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from pelikhan January 22, 2026 15:09
@pelikhan pelikhan marked this pull request as ready for review January 22, 2026 15:19
@pelikhan pelikhan merged commit 2f72d5d into main Jan 22, 2026
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@pelikhan pelikhan deleted the copilot/allow-idtoken-write-permission branch January 22, 2026 15:25
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