Can we use github.token or secrets.github_token instead of personal access token

[thomasmebin]

Hi ,

Can we use github.token or secrets.github_token instead of personal access token ?

Regards,

[hannesdelbeke]

researched this recently myself

official github docs mention for public repos, secrets.github_token can never have edit rights. 
Maximum access for pull requests from public forked repositories: read
so as of now this is not possible.

a potential second blocker to this, only old style personal access tokens seem to work for me, new style one didn't.
I assume GITHUB_TOKEN is new style so even if it had edit rights, it likely still would need code updates for this plugin.