diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index e994b1f..ea68252 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -19,11 +19,13 @@ jobs:
         with:
           app_id: ${{ secrets.OS_GITHUB_APP_ID }}
           private_key: ${{ secrets.OS_GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+
       - name: "☁️ checkout repository"
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      
+          token: ${{ steps.generate_token.outputs.token }}
+
       - name: "🔧 setup node"
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
@@ -43,7 +45,6 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
         release-tag: ${{ steps.semantic-release.outputs.release-tag }}
 
-        
   build:
     needs:
       - release
@@ -75,3 +76,4 @@ jobs:
             -ldflags="-X 'github.com/open-sauced/pizza-cli/pkg/utils.Sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)'" \
             -o build/pizza-${{ matrix.goos }}-${{ matrix.goarch }}
         gh release upload ${{ needs.release.outputs.release-tag }} build/pizza-${{ matrix.goos }}-${{ matrix.goarch }}
+