Is there a way to automatically merge pull requests created by dependabot?

[alvinsjoy]

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My repository has dependabot alerts enabled. I have protected the main branch to only allow pull requests to be merged if status checks are successful. When using pascalgn/automerge-action to merge successful pull requests, I am getting the error: Failed to merge PR: Resource not accessible by integration
I did some googling and found out that dependabot triggered workflow runs are not run using the given permissions ie. the workflow runs are running with basic permissions and cannot merge pull requests. I tried creating a Personal Access Token to prevent this situation but that too does not work. I found that this is because workflows triggered by pull requests does not run using the PAT provided.
Are there any working fixes to this problem?

[alvinsjoy]

Using Dependabot's Built-in Merging: Dependabot itself has the capability to merge pull requests. You can configure it to automatically merge PRs when all checks pass. This would bypass the need for an external action to handle the merging.

As of my knowlegde, there is no configuration for dependabot to automatically merge PRs. One can only initiate a merge by commenting on the pull request using correct syntax and that is manual.
Overall this answer looks so AI generated.

[carogalvin]

@alvinsjoy try following our documentation here on how to create an Action that will auto-merge Dependabot PRs: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/automating-dependabot-with-github-actions#enable-auto-merge-on-a-pull-request