The auto-injected GITHUB_TOKEN defaulted to write-all in ci.yml, bench.yml
and release.yml (no top-level permissions block), and codeql.yml declared
its scopes only at job level. Add a top-level `permissions: contents: read`
to all four so the token starts read-only and only the jobs that genuinely
write through it raise the scope:
- release.yml: github-release keeps contents: write; node-/wasm-publish and
attestations keep their id-token / attestations: write blocks. The
cargo/python/node publish jobs push to crates.io/PyPI/npm via their own
registry secrets, not the GITHUB_TOKEN, so read-only is correct for them.
- codeql.yml: analyze keeps security-events: write (job level).
- ci.yml / bench.yml: no job writes back to the repo (coverage uploads via
CODECOV_TOKEN; bench only uploads an artifact), so no job override is needed.
sync-about.yml already had a top-level block but at contents: write; demote
the top level to read and move contents: write down to the single `sync` job
(the PR-head counter push is the only GITHUB_TOKEN write). The cross-repo
About/docs/webpage/org writes are unaffected — they run through the
fine-grained ABOUT_SYNC_TOKEN, which the permissions key does not govern.
Raises OpenSSF Scorecard Token-Permissions from 0 toward 10.
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