From 611b8bcc8e51bd0f95807e54ce7d68ba16d8aa74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Bianco <iloveitaly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 13:58:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: PAT required for release workflows to be triggered
 (#376)

---
 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 23b3994..e7525e0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -234,4 +234,7 @@ permissions:
 
 [GitHub token permissions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#permissions-for-the-github_token) can be set for an individual job, workflow, or for Actions as a whole.
 
+Note that if you intend to run workflows on the release event (`on: { release: { types: [published] } }`), you need to use
+a personal access token for this action, as the [default `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` does not trigger another workflow](https://github.com/actions/create-release/issues/71).
+
 Doug Tangren (softprops) 2019