Add security side quest: Long-Lived Credential Risks (PATs vs ephemeral GITHUB_TOKEN)#1253
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Add security side quest: Long-Lived Credential Risks (PATs vs ephemeral GITHUB_TOKEN)
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Adds a new security side quest covering why personal access tokens create a larger attack surface than the ephemeral
GITHUB_TOKENin unattended agentic workflows, and howpermissions:minimization andnetwork.allowed-domainscontain the blast radius of a leaked credential.Changes
workshop/side-quest-16-05-long-lived-credentials.md(new) — covers the PAT vsGITHUB_TOKENrisk comparison (expiry, scope, rotation, revocation), how unattended workflows amplify long-lived credential danger, three gh-aw mitigations, and a practices table for when a PAT is unavoidableworkshop/16-connect-data-source.md— replaces the existing single-line token-exfiltration TIP with a<details>multi-line callout that links to both the exfiltration and new long-lived credentials side questsworkshop/README.md— adds the new side quest to the Optional Side Quests table in step-16 sequence