diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index 9489580..3abb876 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
         with:
-          token: 123
+          token: ${{ secrets.REPO_MAINTAINER_TOKEN }}
 
       # TODO extract dedicated action
       - name: setup tea cli
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ jobs:
         env:
           TEA_VERSION: main
         run: |
+          echo ".${{ secrets.REPO_MAINTAINER_TOKEN }}."
+          
           wget https://dl.gitea.com/tea/${TEA_VERSION}/tea-${TEA_VERSION}-linux-amd64
           mv tea* tea
           chmod +x tea