Fix release-please authentication failure in npm publish workflow

[Copilot]

The npm publish workflow was failing with 401 Bad credentials when calling release-please CLI. The command was not passing a GitHub token required for GraphQL API authentication.

Changes

• Pass GitHub token to release-please: Changed npm run release to npx release-please release-pr --token=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
• Add explicit permissions: Added contents: write and pull-requests: write to the publish-npm job
• Remove unnecessary git operations: Deleted git push command and redundant push action step since release-please operates via GitHub API, not local git

- name: Create Release PR
  run: |
    git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
    git config --local user.name "GitHub Actions"
    npx release-please release-pr --repo-url=https://github.com/RaviDasari/see-image-diff --token=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• googlechromelabs.github.io
  • Triggering command: node install.mjs (dns block)
• https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/142.0.7444.59/linux64/chrome-headless-shell-linux64.zip
  • Triggering command: node install.mjs (http block)
• https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/142.0.7444.59/linux64/chrome-linux64.zip

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

Original prompt

Publish npm package is failing with below error HttpError: Bad credentials - https://docs.github.com/graphql at /home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:125:21 ... 7 lines matching cause stack trace ... at async Object.handler (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/bin/release-please.js:360:40) { status: 401, body: { message: 'Bad credentials', documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/graphql', status: '401' }, name: 'GitHubAPIError', cause: RequestError [HttpError]: Bad credentials - https://docs.github.com/graphql at /home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:125:21 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5) at async /home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/github.js:74:38 at async GitHub.graphqlRequest (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/github.js:1255:20) at async GitHub.releaseGraphQL (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/github.js:867:26) at async GitHub.releaseIterator (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/github.js:849:30) at async Manifest.buildPullRequests (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/manifest.js:202:26) at async Manifest.createPullRequests (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/manifest.js:468:39) at async Object.handler (/home/runner/work/see-image-diff/see-image-diff/node_modules/release-please/build/src/bin/release-please.js:360:40) { status: 401, response: { url: 'https://api.github.com/graphql', status: 401, headers: [Object], data: [Object] }, request: { method: 'POST', url: 'https://api.github.com/graphql', headers: [Object], body: '{"query":"query releases($owner: String!, $repo: String!, $num: Int!, $cursor: String) {\\n repository(owner: $owner, name: $repo) {\\n releases(first: $num, after: $cursor, orderBy: {field: CREATED_AT, direction: DESC}) {\\n nodes {\\n name\\n tag {\\n name\\n }\\n tagCommit {\\n oid\\n }\\n url\\n description\\n isDraft\\n }\\n pageInfo {\\n endCursor\\n hasNextPage\\n }\\n }\\n }\\n }","variables":{"owner":"RaviDasari","repo":"see-image-diff","num":25}}', request: [Object] } } } Error: Process completed with exit code 1.. Can you check and see what is going on?

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