ops: tighten workflow token permissions (Scorecard PR B)#41
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Same pattern as runcycles/cycles-server#144. Adds top-level read-all to ci-java.yml and ci-python.yml (reusable workflows consumed by every SDK/service repo); rewrites dependabot-auto-merge.yml. Addresses Token-Permissions criterion from OpenSSF Scorecard.
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…s) (#43) Reusable workflows can only request permissions the *calling* workflow has granted via its top-level permissions block. PR #41's permissions sweep added 'permissions: read-all' to ci-java.yml and ci-python.yml, which expanded to ~15 read scopes (actions, packages, pages, etc.). Every caller that grants narrower permissions hit this error: 'workflow is requesting actions: read, artifact-metadata: read, attestations: read, ... but is only allowed actions: none, ...' Concrete impact: cycles-server's ci.yml declares 'permissions: contents: read' at top level. After PR #41 merged, every CI run on cycles-server returned startup_failure (no jobs created). Same for any other repo calling ci-java.yml or ci-python.yml. Fix: match the working pattern from ci-rust.yml and ci-typescript.yml. Declare only 'permissions: contents: read' at the workflow level — the narrowest permission the workflow actually needs (Maven/pip checkout + build). Job-level permissions stay as-is. Scorecard's Token-Permissions check still passes because each workflow has explicit (non-default) permissions declared at both levels.
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Same pattern as cycles-server#144. Adds top-level read-all to
ci-java.ymlandci-python.yml(reusable workflows consumed by every SDK/service repo — fix here strengthens token hygiene across the org transitively); rewrites dependabot-auto-merge.yml. Addresses Token-Permissions in OpenSSF Scorecard.