Use scoped GitHub Actions tokens across workflows

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Apply the authentication approach from the release workflow to other workflows that used a personal access token or explicit token secret.

• Generation: Use github.token for checkout and generated pull request creation.
• Dependabot backfill: Use github.token for GitHub API requests and branch pushes.

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