update CI permissions

[gadfort]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Security
  • Restricted automated workflows to the minimum permissions required for repository contents, packages, pull requests, actions, and publishing.
  • Replaced Codecov secret authentication with secure OIDC authentication.
  • Updated montage publishing to use the workflow token instead of a dedicated secret.
• Maintenance
  • Documented explicit permissions for release and package publishing tasks.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The workflows now use explicit least-privilege permissions. Jobs retain only the access required for repository contents, package images, publishing, pull requests, actions, or OIDC-based authentication.

Changes

GitHub Actions permission hardening

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow permission defaults .github/workflows/docs.yml, .github/workflows/general_ci.yml, .github/workflows/large-designs.yml, .github/workflows/lint.yml, .github/workflows/run-designs.yml, .github/workflows/wheels.yml	Workflows set contents: read as the default token permission.
Job access for tools and publishing .github/workflows/designs.yml, .github/workflows/general_ci.yml, .github/workflows/large-designs.yml, .github/workflows/lint.yml, .github/workflows/run-designs.yml, .github/workflows/wheels.yml	Jobs add packages: read, id-token: write, or scoped release write access where required.
OIDC and repository write authentication .github/workflows/general_ci.yml, .github/workflows/montage.yml, .github/workflows/designs.yml	Codecov uploads switch to OIDC. Montage creation uses ${{ github.token }} with explicit contents, pull request, and actions permissions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7c50e

The CI hardening scopes most workflow tokens appropriately, but generated montage pull requests may require manual approval for checks, and Codecov identity credentials remain available during test execution. Separate coverage upload from test jobs and correct the generated-PR behavior before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately and concisely describes the main change: updating CI workflow permissions.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/general_ci.yml:
- Line 36: Separate Codecov uploads from the python matrix and eda test jobs by
adding a dedicated upload job that downloads the coverage artifacts and performs
the uploads. Remove id-token: write from the test jobs, and grant it only to the
isolated Codecov job, which must not checkout code, install dependencies, or run
tests.

In @.github/workflows/montage.yml:
- Around line 84-86: Update the GITHUB_TOKEN comment in the workflow to
accurately state that pull_request workflows may require manual approval when
this token creates the PR; do not claim that no workflows are triggered. If
automatic checks are required, use a GitHub App or PAT, or explicitly dispatch
the checks.

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📒 Files selected for processing (8)

• .github/workflows/designs.yml
• .github/workflows/docs.yml
• .github/workflows/general_ci.yml
• .github/workflows/large-designs.yml
• .github/workflows/lint.yml
• .github/workflows/montage.yml
• .github/workflows/run-designs.yml
• .github/workflows/wheels.yml

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