# Permissions denied to github actions bot while building documentation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/permissions-denied-to-github-actions-bot-while-building-documentation/88158>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, documentation, github-actions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/permissions-denied-to-github-actions-bot-while-building-documentation/88158 "2022-10-03T13:29:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![digital\_carver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/digital_carver/32/33818_2.png) [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/permissions-denied-to-github-actions-bot-while-building-documentation/88158/2 "2022-10-03T15:10:04Z")

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Is it this issue:

> [@Slow TagBot. No repo update after 16 hours](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slow-tagbot-no-repo-update-after-16-hours/80870/17):
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> For anyone still experiencing this issue, it may be due to a permission change that Github implemented some time early May (credit to @mfiano for figuring this out). The default permission for GITHUB\_TOKEN was changed from “read and write” to “read only”. The TagBot [README](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/TagBot#setup) and the [example.yml](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/TagBot/blob/master/example.yml) show the way to restore the required permissions at the YAML file level. ([This comment](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/CompatHelper.jl/issues/416#issue-1232165557) describes the issue and shows a way to fix it via Github UI, on a per-repository level.) The YAML change just involve…

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