diff --git a/.github/workflows/governance.yml b/.github/workflows/governance.yml
index 6a54619..847bcec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/governance.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/governance.yml
@@ -31,3 +31,7 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
   governance:
     uses: hyperpolymath/standards/.github/workflows/governance-reusable.yml@8f2ee50841e216cd8c192eeb68953118190f105c
+      permissions:
+        actions: read
+        contents: read
+        security-events: write
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
index aed977c..290c757 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     # is silently downgraded and fails. (timeout-minutes is intentionally absent:
     # it is not a permitted key on a reusable-calling job — the reusable owns it.)
     permissions:
+      actions: read
       contents: read
       security-events: write
       id-token: write
diff --git a/.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml b/.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml
index 834ee1f..121dfba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/secret-scanner.yml
@@ -21,3 +21,7 @@ jobs:
   scan:
     uses: hyperpolymath/standards/.github/workflows/secret-scanner-reusable.yml@8f2ee50841e216cd8c192eeb68953118190f105c
     secrets: inherit
+      permissions:
+        actions: read
+        contents: read
+        security-events: write