A GitHub Action to check if the current actor has a specific access to the repository.

Actors may one of four permission levels for any repository:

• none: no access
• read: pull-only access
• write: pull and push access
• admin: pull, push, and administrator access

This action will check against the current repository if the actor has a high enough permission level based on the provided argument.

To have an action that only passes if the actor has write access to the repo, use the action as follows:

steps:
  - name: Enforce permission requirement
    uses: prince-chrismc/check-actor-permissions-action@v1
    with:
      permission: write

To have the workflow change behaviors depending on the actor's permissions, use the action as follows:

steps:
  - id: check
    continue-on-error: true
    uses: prince-chrismc/check-actor-permissions-action@v1
    with:
      github_token: ${{ github.token }}
      permission: write
  - if: steps.check.outputs.permitted == 'true'
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }} # Typically this would fail on public forks as secret at not available