## Overview
This PR introduces granular permission controls for Gitea Actions tokens
(`GITEA_TOKEN`), aligning Gitea's security model with GitHub Actions
standards while maintaining compatibility with Gitea's unique repository
unit system.
It addresses the need for finer access control by allowing
administrators and repository owners to define default token
permissions, set maximum permission ceilings, and control
cross-repository access within organizations.
## Key Features
### 1. Granular Token Permissions
- **Standard Keyword Support**: Implements support for the
`permissions:` keyword in workflow and job YAML files (e.g., `contents:
read`, `issues: write`).
- **Permission Modes**:
- **Permissive**: Default write access for most units (backwards
compatible).
- **Restricted**: Default read-only access for `contents` and
`packages`, with no access to other units.
- ~~**Custom**: Allows defining specific default levels for each unit
type (Code, Issues, PRs, Packages, etc.).~~**EDIT removed UI was
confusing**
- **Clamping Logic**: Workflow-defined permissions are automatically
"clamped" by repository or organization-level maximum settings.
Workflows cannot escalate their own permissions beyond these limits.
### 2. Organization & Repository Settings
- **Settings UI**: Added new settings pages at both Organization and
Repository levels to manage Actions token defaults and maximums.
- **Inheritance**: Repositories can be configured to "Follow
organization-level configuration," simplifying management across large
organizations.
- **Cross-Repository Access**: Added a policy to control whether Actions
workflows can access other repositories or packages within the same
organization. This can be set to "None," "All," or restricted to a
"Selected" list of repositories.
### 3. Security Hardening
- **Fork Pull Request Protection**: Tokens for workflows triggered by
pull requests from forks are strictly enforced as read-only, regardless
of repository settings.
- ~~**Package Access**: Actions tokens can now only access packages
explicitly linked to a repository, with cross-repo access governed by
the organization's security policy.~~ **EDIT removed
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36173#issuecomment-3873675346**
- **Git Hook Integration**: Propagates Actions Task IDs to git hooks to
ensure that pushes performed by Actions tokens respect the specific
permissions granted at runtime.
### 4. Technical Implementation
- **Permission Persistence**: Parsed permissions are calculated at job
creation and stored in the `action_run_job` table. This ensures the
token's authority is deterministic throughout the job's lifecycle.
- **Parsing Priority**: Implemented a priority system in the YAML parser
where the broad `contents` scope is applied first, allowing granular
scopes like `code` or `releases` to override it for precise control.
- **Re-runs**: Permissions are re-evaluated during a job re-run to
incorporate any changes made to repository settings in the interim.
### How to Test
1. **Unit Tests**: Run `go test ./services/actions/...` and `go test
./models/repo/...` to verify parsing logic and permission clamping.
2. **Integration Tests**: Comprehensive tests have been added to
`tests/integration/actions_job_token_test.go` covering:
- Permissive vs. Restricted mode behavior.
- YAML `permissions:` keyword evaluation.
- Organization cross-repo access policies.
- Resource access (Git, API, and Packages) under various permission
configs.
3. **Manual Verification**:
- Navigate to **Site/Org/Repo Settings -> Actions -> General**.
- Change "Default Token Permissions" and verify that newly triggered
workflows reflect these changes in their `GITEA_TOKEN` capabilities.
- Attempt a cross-repo API call from an Action and verify the Org policy
is enforced.
## Documentation
Added a PR in gitea's docs for this :
https://gitea.com/gitea/docs/pulls/318
## UI:
<img width="1366" height="619" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-24 174112"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bfa29c9a-4ea5-4346-9410-16d491ef3d44"
/>
<img width="1360" height="621" alt="Screenshot 2026-01-24 174048"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d5ec46c8-9a13-4874-a6a4-fb379936cef5"
/>
/fixes #24635
/claim #24635
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We've been cutting down on the "striped" tables (where rows are using
alternate row background colors). This completely removes them as I
think such a design looks outdated.
The removal of selectors starting with `.ui[class*="very
basic"].table:not(.striped)` is needed because of a specificity issue in
the CSS where table cells would otherwise render with incorrect padding.
Example of one affected table:
<img width="1027" height="224" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2f3006ca-99a1-4655-afdb-b7cd9e5f19c7"
/>
Adds the `flat-square` style to action badges. Styles can be selected by
adding `?style=<style>` to the badge endpoint. If no style query is
given, or if the query is invalid, the style defaults to `flat`.
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The current action status badge are looking different from most other
badges renders, which is especially noticeable when using them along
with other badges. This PR updates the action badges to match the
commonly used badges from other providers.
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- switch from some weird status badge to label
- translate untranslated `Reset registration token` string
- change documentation link from act_runner README to Gitea Docs site
- fix "No runners available" message width
- use `ctx.Locale.Tr` where possible
- Set
[type=search](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/search)
- Disable spellcheck
- Set maxLength 255 that I found in `templates/repo/issue/search.tmpl`
- Remove unnecessary `max-width`, it does nothing
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So I found this [linter](https://github.com/Riverside-Healthcare/djlint)
which features a mode for go templates, so I gave it a try and it did
find a number of valid issue, like unbalanced tags etc. It also has a
number of bugs, I had to disable/workaround many issues.
Given that this linter is written in python, this does add a dependency
on `python` >= 3.8 and `poetry` to the development environment to be
able to run this linter locally.
- `e.g.` prefixes on placeholders are removed because the linter had a
false-positive on `placeholder="e.g. cn=Search"` for the `attr=value`
syntax and it's not ideal anyways to write `e.g.` into a placeholder
because a placeholder is meant to hold a sample value.
- In `templates/repo/settings/options.tmpl` I simplified the logic to
not conditionally create opening tags without closing tags because this
stuff confuses the linter (and possibly the reader as well).
close#24540
related:
- Protocol: https://gitea.com/gitea/actions-proto-def/pulls/9
- Runner side: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/201
changes:
- Add column of `labels` to table `action_runner`, and combine the value
of `agent_labels` and `custom_labels` column to `labels` column.
- Store `labels` when registering `act_runner`.
- Update `labels` when `act_runner` starting and calling `Declare`.
- Users cannot modify the `custom labels` in edit page any more.
other changes:
- Store `version` when registering `act_runner`.
- If runner is latest version, parse version from `Declare`. But older
version runner still parse version from request header.
Fixes https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/24326.
Set size class and downsize any such buttons that have a dropdown icon
because the dropdown icon increases button height artificially.
[`:has()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has) is not
supported in Firefox yet, but works fine with the experimental pref
enabled. I see this as a graceful degradation in unsupporting browsers.
Follow:
* #23574
* Remove all ".tooltip[data-content=...]"
Major changes:
* Remove "tooltip" class, use "[data-tooltip-content=...]" instead of
".tooltip[data-content=...]"
* Remove legacy `data-position`, it's dead code since last Fomantic
Tooltip -> Tippy Tooltip refactoring
* Rename reaction attribute from `data-content` to
`data-reaction-content`
* Add comments for some `data-content`: `{{/* used by the form */}}`
* Remove empty "ui" class
* Use "text color" for SVG icons (a few)
This improves a lot of accessibility shortcomings.
Every possible instance of `<div class="button">` matching the command
`ag '<[^ab].*?class=.*?[" ]button[ "]' templates/ | grep -v 'dropdown'`
has been converted when possible.
divs with the `dropdown` class and their children were omitted as
1. more analysis must be conducted whether the dropdowns still work as
intended when they are a `button` instead of a `div`.
2. most dropdowns have `div`s as children. The HTML standard disallows
`div`s inside `button`s.
3. When a dropdown child that's part of the displayed text content is
converted to a `button`, the dropdown can be focused twice
Further changes include that all "gitea-managed" buttons with JS code
received an `e.preventDefault()` so that they don't accidentally submit
an underlying form, which would execute instead of cancel the action.
Lastly, some minor issues were fixed as well during the refactoring.
## Future improvements
As mentioned in
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/23337#discussion_r1127277391,
`<a>`s without `href` attribute are not focusable.
They should later on be converted to `<button>`s.
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Co-authored-by: techknowlogick <techknowlogick@gitea.io>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
As discussed in #22847 the helpers in helpers.less need to have a
separate prefix as they are causing conflicts with fomantic styles
This will allow us to have the `.gt-hidden { display:none !important; }`
style that is needed to for the reverted PR.
Of note in doing this I have noticed that there was already a conflict
with at least one chroma style which this PR now avoids.
I've also added in the `gt-hidden` style that matches the tailwind one
and switched the code that needed it to use that.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
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