Skip Vally eval job for fork-originated pull requests - #3301
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[WIP] Fix failing GitHub Actions job Vally evaluations / eval-job
Skip Vally eval job for fork-originated pull requests
Aug 18, 2026
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The "Vally evaluations / eval-job" workflow was failing for pull requests opened from forked repositories, reporting 45/45 eval failures.
Root cause
GitHub Actions never exposes repository secrets (
COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN) to workflow runs triggered bypull_requestevents from a fork. Without the token, vally'scopilot-sdkexecutor can't create a session:This was confirmed by comparing against other recent runs of the same workflow: same-repo PR runs either passed or failed on legitimate grader mismatches, while every fork-originated run failed uniformly on this session error regardless of the code changes in the PR.
Fix
.github/workflows/vally-eval.yml: added a job-levelifcondition that skipseval-jobwhen the run is apull_requestfrom a fork (head.repo.full_name != github.repository), while still running normally for same-repo PRs and manualworkflow_dispatchruns.This avoids surfacing a false failure for a structural GitHub Actions limitation, without exposing secrets to untrusted fork-submitted code.