From 9967fc704a4e82727fc8124bde2e81380e7d1583 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cannon Lock <49032265+CannonLock@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:58:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add checkout step to auto-format job

Add checkout step demo to the example to demonstrate how you can use this token to checkout and push to a github repository in the same step.
---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f969916..05972ca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ jobs:
   auto-format:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # Prevent implicit use of default GITHUB_TOKEN
+          persist-credentials: false
       - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
         id: app-token
         with: