Missing Checks permission in personal access token

[kemchenj]

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There is Checks repository permission that listed in 《Permissions required for fine-grained personal access tokens》

But it is missing in the settings：

I wonder if this is a bug or it is intended?

[froblesmartin]

I have just faced this as well. Curious that, as you mention, it is documented in the fine grained page, but not available. Checking in a GitHub App, it does show it:

[richardsimko]

@kemchenj or @froblesmartin Did you figure out some workaround? Seems to still be an issue.

[PhilipAtCisco]

++ I'm also running into this myself this morning trying to setup some CI tests that create PRs to test a reuseable workflow.

PRs created by bots don't run checks (aws/karpenter-provider-aws#4525) so a fine-grained PAT that is repo scoped I believe is the workaround. I think I could swap back to the regular GITHUB_TOKEN for the validation of the checks, but this missing feature would certainly simplify things!

[richardsimko]

Yeah we're in a similar situation but With Renovate. Had to go back to classic tokens.

[F-WRunTime]

Also now running into this as well. Started to lose my mind how hard it was to find this related issue. Glad it it's here
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[iufor]

I have same issue facing

[andrewlarioza]

We stumble to this issue as well and good to have the resolution soon.
$ curl -L -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: Bearer github_pat_XXXXX" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" https://api.github.com/repos/azoiral/devops-test-repo/commits/DEVOPS-3-gatekeeper-v1-3/check-suites { "message": "Resource not accessible by personal access token", "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/checks/suites#list-check-suites-for-a-git-reference", "status": "403" }

[andipexton-insight]

To spend hours building a process based on documented functionality that doesn't exist is more than frustrating, it would be nice if someone from @github could give a response? is the error in the documentation or the omission of the feature?

[F-WRunTime]

Great question. Same problem.

[omarabid]

So anyone from Github care to comment or look at this. I spent a whole morning trying to figure out why my "fine-tuned" tokens do not work and it turns out that there was no "Checks" fine tuning.