Octokit is encoding path of /contents/ api resulting in 403

[Gopikrishna19]

Hello all! Hope I am doing this correctly. I am using the octokit in probot and is causing this problem. I am trying to create a new file. When I do:

return context.octokit.repos.createOrUpdateFileContents({
    owner: context.payload.repository.owner.login,
    repo: context.payload.repository.name,
    path: 'initial.yaml',  // <-- works fine
    content: Buffer.from(initialAction).toString('base64'),
    message: 'ci: create initial PR verification process',
    committer: signature,
    author: signature
});

this works fine. But when I give a sub path for the same file in the same repository it fails. Request:

return context.octokit.repos.createOrUpdateFileContents({
    owner: context.payload.repository.owner.login,
    repo: context.payload.repository.name,
    path: '.github/workflows/initial.yaml',  // <-- desired path
    content: Buffer.from(initialAction).toString('base64'),
    message: 'ci: create initial PR verification process',
    committer: signature,
    author: signature
});

And the error:

status: 403
request: {
    method: "PUT"
    url: "https://[GHES]/api/v3/repos/[REDACTED]/webhook-test/contents/.github%2Fworkflows%2Finitial.yaml"
    headers: {
      "accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json",
      "user-agent": "probot/11.4.1 octokit-core.js/3.5.1 Node.js/16.13.1 (darwin; x64)",
      "authorization": "token [REDACTED]",
      "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
    }
    body: "{\"content\":\"b246CiAgcHVsbF9yZXF1ZXN0X3RhcmdldDoKICAgIHR5cGVzOgogICAgICAtIGVkaXRlZAogICAgICAtIG9wZW5lZAogICAgICAtIHJlb3BlbmVkCiAgICAgIC0gcmVhZHlfZm9yX3JldmlldwogICAgICAtIHN5bmNocm9uaXplCgpqb2JzOgogIERhbmdlcjoKICAgIHJ1bnMtb246IHNlbGYtaG9zdGVkCiAgICBzdGVwczoKICAgICAgLSBydW46IGVjaG8gIlRoaXMgaXMganVzdCBhIHNhbXBsZSBkYW5nZXIiCgogIFZlcmlmeToKICAgIHJ1bnMtb246IHNlbGYtaG9zdGVkCiAgICBzdGVwczoKICAgICAgLSBydW46IGVjaG8gIlRoaXMgaXMganVzdCBhIHNhbXBsZSB2ZXJpZnkiCg==\",\"message\":\"ci: create initial PR verification process\",\"committer\":{\"name\":\"[REDACTED]\",\"email\":\"[REDACTED]\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"[REDACTED]\",\"email\":\"[REDACTED]\"}}"
    request: {}
}

My suspicion is the %2F encoding done by the library. The documentation examples show raw repos/<owner>/webhook-test/contents/.github/workflows/initial.yaml without encoding. Thoughts? Is this a bug? or am I doing it wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated

[Gopikrishna19]

Found the solution. I have to allow "Workflows" permission to the application. It was working fine for other files because it already has "Contents" permission.