Creating a Pull Request using Actions (Fine Grained Token PAT)

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This may possibly be a bug report.

It seems that using fine grained tokens doesn't support creating a pull request for a fork to upstream. Example:
https://github.com/bsq-ports/Chroma/actions/runs/9867981598/job/27249620101

To explain my situation, my action forks a repository, makes a commit and then attempts to make a pull request on my behalf to the upstream repository of the fork. The fork and upstream are not the same as the workflow's repository.

Using a classic token with full repository permissions seems to work but I'm wondering if I can preferably use fine grained tokens.

My Github Action code creating the pull request

Previous discussions related confused me which is why I'm looking for clarity.

Thanks

On another note, I also attempted to use the workflow permissions syntax but it seems intentionally limited to avoid security issues for situations such as this.
Reference:

• https://github.com/StackDoubleFlow/CustomJSONData/actions/runs/9844101560
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26904

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