Add least-privilege permissions to build.yml workflow#392
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[WIP] Add permissions to GitHub workflows
Add least-privilege permissions to build.yml workflow
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GitHub workflows without explicit
permissionsinherit the repository default, which may bewrite-all. Thebuild.ymlworkflow was the only one missing an explicitpermissionskey.Changes
build.yml: Addedpermissions: contents: readat the workflow root — the minimum required for checkout, build, test, and artifact upload (which uses an internal runtime token, notGITHUB_TOKEN)The other workflows already had appropriate permissions (
validate-yaml.yml:contents: read,release.yml:contents: write).Original prompt
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