If the action is configured not to push and the configured repository is public, then the GITHUB_TOKEN should not be required, since the action should be able to clone the repository without it.
Currently the action fails due to the following validation, not because the action can't actually clone the repo.
if (ghRepository) {
validateGitHubToken('gh-repository', githubToken, 'to clone the repository');
}
This is undesirable because it unnecessarily leads users to create PATs or fine-grained tokens, increasing their security exposure.