Required Secrets

🔐 Secrets Setup

Can be found under:

Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Secrets

Secret Name	Required	Description
CICD_PAT	✅	A Personal Access Token with 'repo' and 'workflow' permissions
UNITY_EMAIL	✅	Unity account email
UNITY_PASSWORD	✅	Unity account password
UNITY_LICENSE	✅	Raw .ulf license contents
DISCORD_WEBHOOK	❌	Discord Webhook URL for optional CI notifications
SLACK_WEBHOOK	❌	Slack Webhook URL for optional CI notifications

🔐 Deployment Target Secrets

These are the required secrets for each optional deploy target, only include if needed:

Target	Required Secrets
itch.io	DEPLOY_API_KEY, ITCH_USERNAME, ITCH_PROJECT
testflight	APPSTORE_API_KEY_ID, APPSTORE_API_ISSUER_ID, APPSTORE_API_PRIVATE_KEY
steam	STEAM_USERNAME, STEAM_PASSWORD, STEAM_APP_ID

UNITY_LICENSE

Unity License Setup for CI/CD

To run Unity builds and tests in this CI/CD pipeline, you must activate a Unity license for use inside GitHub Actions.

This guide explains how to prepare and securely store your Unity license, depending on your license type.

👉 Reference: GameCI Unity Activation Docs

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🎮 Supported License Types

License Type	Setup Section
Unity Personal (Free)	Personal License Setup
Unity Plus / Pro (Paid)	Professional License Setup
License Server	License Server Setup

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🏗️ Personal License Setup

Use this if you’re using the free Unity Personal license.

1️⃣ Activate Locally
On your machine, open Unity Hub → Preferences → Licenses → Add →
Select Get a free personal license → Complete activation.

2️⃣ Locate .ulf File
After activation, find the license file:

• Windows → C:\ProgramData\Unity\Unity_lic.ulf
• macOS → /Library/Application Support/Unity/Unity_lic.ulf
• Linux → ~/.local/share/unity3d/Unity/Unity_lic.ulf

3️⃣ Add GitHub Secrets
Go to your repository → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Secrets → Add:

• UNITY_EMAIL → Your Unity account email.
• UNITY_PASSWORD → Your Unity account password.
• UNITY_LICENSE → Paste the full contents of your .ulf file.

✅ Done! Your CI/CD pipeline can now activate the license during test and build steps.

Unfortunately no support for pro-licenses as of now, at least I haven't tested it.

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CICD_PAT

Personal Access Token for CI/CD

To allow your GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to perform advanced tasks like triggering workflows, creating releases, or managing artifacts across workflows or repositories, you need to provide a Personal Access Token (PAT).

By default, GitHub Actions only has access to the built-in ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}, which works inside a single workflow run but has limitations when triggering other workflows or accessing external resources. That’s why we need a separate PAT.

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📋 Why Do We Need CICD_PAT?

Here’s what the CICD_PAT enables: ✅ Triggering other workflows (e.g., workflow_dispatch from one workflow to another)
✅ Creating or modifying releases (especially across repos)
✅ Uploading or downloading artifacts across repositories
✅ Accessing private repos or organization resources from scripts
✅ Bypassing some permission limits of the default GITHUB_TOKEN

The CICD dispatcher relies on being able to call another workflow from CLI. A regular Git token will not suffice for this. In order to modify the project to create releases, the CICD_PAT will also be necessary to have those permissions

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🔨 How to Create CICD_PAT

1️⃣ Go to GitHub → Your Profile → Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Tokens → Tokens (classic)
👉 Direct Link: https://github.com/settings/tokens
2️⃣ Click “Generate new token (classic)”
3️⃣ Name your token something clear, e.g., cicd-pat
4️⃣ Set Expiration → Choose a reasonable expiration (recommend renewing regularly)
5️⃣ Select Scopes (Permissions):

• ✅ repo → Full control of private repositories (needed for workflows touching code, releases, or artifacts)
  
• ✅ workflow → Update GitHub Action workflows, trigger workflow runs
  6️⃣ Generate Token → Copy it once (you won’t be able to see it again)
  7️⃣ Add GitHub Secrets
  Go to your repository → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Secrets → Add:
  Title: CICD_PAT
  Value: Paste your PAT into the value field