Ability to programmatically add to a personal project board from GH actions

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I would like to be able to automate my personal project board with any assigned issue across all my repos/organisations. The current default auto-add automations force you to choose a specific repository, which is useless in my case.

I have a scheduled workflow that checks for the last day's of updated/assigned issues at personal-kanban.yml. It works fine locally with the GH CLI, but one cannot create a token with the appropriate permissions to do this programmatically via the GH CLI, using either classic or fine-grained tokens, as the command

gh project item-add "$PROJECT_NUMBER" --owner "$USERNAME" --url "$url" returns unknown owner type when I pass it my own user name (indicating insufficient permissions, according to cli/cli#8885).

Is there any way we can either have a proper automation that works across orgs/repositories for personal project boards, or can we have the ability to create a token with the appropriate permissions? gh auth refresh -s project was enough locally, but does not seem to map to the permissions used inside GH actions.

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