How do I clone A repo in B repo github actions if two repo is in same organization, not using PAT?

In B repo, I have to clone other repos in same organization.

like, in B's action I want to clone A/C/D/E... and other repos dynamically. I don't want to add each other private repo's PAT, because all repos are in same organization so I just want to use global organization secret.

I tried this:

      - name: Use environment variables
        if: github.event.pull_request.merged
        env:
          SERVICE_NAME: ${{ env.SERVICE_NAME }}
          ENVIRONMENT: ${{ env.ENVIRONMENT }}
          VERSION: ${{ env.VERSION }}
        run: |
          echo "Service name: $SERVICE_NAME"
          echo "Environment: $ENVIRONMENT"
          echo "Version: $VERSION"

      - name: checkout deploy-metadata
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: 'refs/heads/master'

      - name: clone deploying server
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          repository: private-repo/${{ env.SERVICE_NAME }}
          ref: v${{ env.VERSION }}
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

but this doesn't work. How to clone other private repo in same organization without using each repo's PAT?

Solution

That was discussed before, and that thread references the documentation "Checkout multiple repos (private)"

${{ github.token }} is scoped to the current repository, so if you want to checkout a different repository that is private you will need to provide your own PAT.

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v3
  with:
    path: main

- name: Checkout private tools
  uses: actions/checkout@v3
  with:
    repository: my-org/my-private-tools
    token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} # `GH_PAT` is a secret that contains your PAT
    path: my-tools

So as long as you can provide a token of an account which has read access to each of those target repository, you should be able to clone them.