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echo "$(dig +short api.codacy.com | tail -n1) api.codacy.com" >> /etc/hosts
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## I received the message: "Invalid configuration: Either a project or account API token must be provided or available in an environment variable" in a build from a commit created by Dependabot (Github)

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[Vale.Terms] Use 'GitHub' instead of 'Github'.

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{"message": "[Vale.Terms] Use 'GitHub' instead of 'Github'.", "location": {"path": "docs/coverage-reporter/troubleshooting-coverage-cli-issues.md", "range": {"start": {"line": 148, "column": 196}}}, "severity": "ERROR"}

When builds are triggered by Dependabot, they run with a read-only GITHUB_TOKEN and don’t have access to any secrets stored in GitHub Actions. This can break workflows — for example, the token may be missing and coverage reports can’t be uploaded to Codacy.

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[Microsoft.Dashes] Remove the spaces around ' — '.

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{"message": "[Microsoft.Dashes] Remove the spaces around ' — '.", "location": {"path": "docs/coverage-reporter/troubleshooting-coverage-cli-issues.md", "range": {"start": {"line": 150, "column": 168}}}, "severity": "ERROR"}

[See GitHub’s documentation for details.](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/troubleshooting-dependabot/troubleshooting-dependabot-on-github-actions#troubleshooting-failures-when-dependabot-triggers-existing-workflows)

If you still need to upload coverage from Dependabot’s pull requests, a workaround is to add an empty commit to those PRs. Because the commit comes from a regular user account, the workflow will then have access to the repository’s secrets, allowing the upload to succeed.
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