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Mark stale prs CI has a very low limit #140279
Description
Feature or enhancement
The CI has a limit of 120, as can be seen in today's run.
Looking at the docs on rate limits, IIUC the action would fall under:
GitHub Apps authenticating with an installation access token ... on a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization, the installation has a rate limit of 15,000 requests per hour.
There is also the option of adding a GITHUB_TOKEN to increase the limit to 15000.
Activity
hugovk commentedon Oct 18, 2025
Does actions/stale run as a GitHub app? (re: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28#primary-rate-limit-for-github-app-installations)
Or is it running as a GitHub Actions workflow? (re: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28#primary-rate-limit-for-github_token-in-github-actions)
The actions/stale docs say of operations-per-run:
And:
Would 5,000 requests use up our 1,000/hour quota very quickly and cause other workflows to stop running?
hugovk commentedon Oct 18, 2025
See also #113858 to fix a related problem, in that the stale cache gets deleted before it can be used again, and #139623 that should remove that problem.
StanFromIreland commentedon Oct 18, 2025
Reading GitHub's documentation it is not clear to me whether the
uses: packageis an installation or not. How about we increase to 800? Do the other workflows even use the API I wonder, per the actions/checkout docs Git is used, with a fallback to the API if that fails.gh-140279: Stale workflow needs 'actions: write' to update its own ca…
StanFromIreland commentedon Apr 9, 2026
With the cache it's slowly but surely making progress, closing.
pythongh-140279: Stale workflow needs 'actions: write' to update its …