docs: scope bot-token guidance to trust boundary#314
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Replace ALLHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT in the pr-review and vulnerability-remediation plugin READMEs with trust-boundary guidance: recommend OPENHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT_PUBLIC on public repos and a repo-scoped token on private repos, never a token that can reach private repos from a public workflow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
The pr-review and vulnerability-remediation plugin READMEs are the canonical guidance other repos copy. They recommend a single broad bot secret (
ALLHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT) for posting comments / opening PRs, with no distinction between public and private repos. That guidance drives the trust-boundary problem tracked in evaluation#428 / #478: a public repo ends up wired to a credential that can also reach private repos.Summary
ALLHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PATin both plugin READMEs with trust-boundary guidance.OPENHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT_PUBLIC(fine-grained, public-repos-only) for public repositories.Docs-only; no workflow or code changes.
How to test
grep -rn ALLHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT plugins/returns nothing.OPENHANDS_BOT_GITHUB_PAT_PUBLIC.🤖 Generated with Claude Code