Enable GHA from a public fork on a public organization repository

[sydrawat01]

Organization level secrets not accessible in GitHub actions workflow

I am following the forking workflow for my project, where I have an organization with a public repository. This organization has org level secrets that I pass to my unit test GitHub actions workflow.

I fork this repository(from the org), make changes in a separate branch in my fork, and then open a PR from my fork to the org's master branch, where the CI workflow runs.

The workflow fails because it was not able to access the secrets that I have defined at the org level.
The same steps work when the repo in the org is private.

For reference, this is the failed workflow

[sydrawat01]

A possible solution could be using the GITHUB_TOKEN:

env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

and running the action only on approval of the repo owner/maintainer and also to restrict the workflow from running by requesting approval to run the workflow.