Trigger another workflow through a GitHub App?

[Andre601]

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Workflow Configuration

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I want to setup a workflow that performs the following steps:

• Checkout the repository and a remote repository containing a robots.txt with known AI crawler User-Agents
• Check if the robots.txt of the own repository is outdated compared to the remote one (has a difference)
• If there is a difference, copy over the remote robots.txt, commit and push the changes.
• If there is no change, do nothing.

I did setup such a workflow on a separate git host that uses a workflow system not unlike GitHub Actions.
However, there I used a separate account (due to a lack of a "bot" account system) while I would like to use a GitHub App here.

I've followed this docs page to setup an App and use it in a workflow.
And by the looks of it is the workflow I currently have (source) working. But, I've noticed two majore inconveniences I would like to fix:

1. The other action (Deploy Site) is not being triggered by this action, despite the commit being made by a (bot) user and not the GitHub Actions user. I want to have the action triggered to update the deployment.
2. The commit displays my Account as the committer, due to the usage of the e-mail associated with me. I would like to have the App account be displayed here instead.

I would like some assistance to try and fix these issues now.