chore: Update Scorecard workflow configuration (#1339)

Co-authored-by: talele08 <talele08@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: varunreddy-egov

.github/workflows/scorecard.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub. They are provided
 # by a third-party and are governed by separate terms of service, privacy
 # policy, and support documentation.
-
 name: Scorecard supply-chain security
 on:
   # For Branch-Protection check. Only the default branch is supported. See
@@ -13,12 +12,9 @@ on:
     - cron: '45 1 * * 4'
   push:
     branches: [ "master" ]
-
   workflow_dispatch:
-
 # Declare default permissions as read only.
 permissions: read-all
-
 jobs:
   analysis:
     name: Scorecard analysis
@@ -30,36 +26,29 @@ jobs:
       security-events: write
       # Needed to publish results and get a badge (see publish_results below).
       id-token: write
-
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code"
         uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
-
       - name: "Run analysis"
         uses: ossf/scorecard-action@f49aabe0b5af0936a0987cfb85d86b75731b0186 # v2.4.1
         with:
           results_file: results.sarif
           results_format: sarif
-          # (Optional) "write" PAT token. Uncomment the `repo_token` line below if:
-          # - you want to enable the Branch-Protection check on a *public* repository, or
-          # - you are installing Scorecard on a *private* repository
+          # PAT token for Branch-Protection check access.
           # To create the PAT, follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action?tab=readme-ov-file#authentication-with-fine-grained-pat-optional.
-          # repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_TOKEN }}
-
+          repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_TOKEN }}
           # Public repositories:
           #   - Publish results to OpenSSF REST API for easy access by consumers
           #   - Allows the repository to include the Scorecard badge.
           #   - See https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results.
           # For private repositories:
           #   - `publish_results` will always be set to `false`, regardless
           #     of the value entered here.
-          publish_results: true
-
+          publish_results: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch == github.ref_name }}
           # (Optional) Uncomment file_mode if you have a .gitattributes with files marked export-ignore
           # file_mode: git
-
       # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
       # format to the repository Actions tab.
       - name: "Upload artifact"
@@ -68,7 +57,6 @@ jobs:
           name: SARIF file
           path: results.sarif
           retention-days: 5
-
       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard (optional).
       # Commenting out will disable upload of results to your repo's Code Scanning dashboard
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"