ci(release): authenticate arduino/setup-protoc with GITHUB_TOKEN#31
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arduino/setup-protoc calls the GitHub releases API to fetch the protoc binary. Without an explicit repo-token it uses the per-IP unauthenticated quota (~60/hr), which is shared with every other runner on the same egress IP and routinely exhausted on the ubuntu-/macos-/windows-latest pools. Both the v0.3.0 (run 24506528329) and v0.5.0 (run 25060322954) release workflows died at this step within seconds with "API rate limit exceeded for <ip>". Passing repo-token makes the action authenticate as the workflow, lifting it onto our 5,000/hr token quota. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Both v0.3.0 and v0.5.0 release workflow runs failed within ~10 s on the
arduino/setup-protoc@v3step with:The action calls the GitHub releases API to fetch the protoc binary and, without an explicit
repo-token, uses the per-IP unauthenticated quota (~60/hr). That quota is shared with every other workflow on the same hosted-runner egress IP and routinely exhausted on the macOS/Linux/Windows pools.Passing
repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}makes the action authenticate as the workflow, lifting it onto our 5,000/hr token quota.Reproductions
The v0.4.0 release succeeded only because it happened to fall in a window when the runner pool's IP wasn't exhausted; we keep getting unlucky.
Test plan
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