remote: Repository not found in GitHub pipeline

Question

I'm trying to checkout a private repo inside my GitHub pipeline, and the following is my pipeline code,

build:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:  
  - name: Checkout pickezy backend
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
     repository: Madurad/jenkinsfiles
     token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     ref: master

But when I run this I get the following error saying, "repository not found" but it's in my githiub org. and it's a private repo.

It does not seem like an auth error. Could anyone please help me to resolve this issue? Anything I've missed?

Answer 1

You can add the missing permission in the top level of the YAML file:

permissions:
  contents: read

Note that I did not need to specify token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} in the checkout step.

This solution is based on an auto-completion from GitHub Copilot. It works, but I did no further research.