diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yaml b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
index 2074d73..3110674 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yaml
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Hello world action step
         uses: ./
-
         id: hello
         with:
           label: minor
           filePath: package.json
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       # ${{ github.event.label.name }}
       - name: Get the output time
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index ea30340..b4f9255 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ inputs:
   filePath:
     description: "File path of the project info (e.g: package.json) relative to the root directory of the repository."
     required: true
+  repoToken:
+    description: GitHub repository token
+    required: true
 
 outputs:
   time: # id of output
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index e62b348..bb70300 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ run();
 async function run() {
   try {
     console.log(`CWD: ${process.cwd()}`)
+
     const label = core.getInput('label');
     const filePath = `${process.cwd()}/${core.getInput('filePath')}`;
 
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ async function run() {
 
     // the version is in semantic format, so we can split it by dot
     const versionParts = version.split('.');
+    // 1.2.3 => [1, 2, 3]
     if (label === 'major') {
       versionParts[0] = parseInt(versionParts[0]) + 1;
       versionParts[1] = 0;
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ async function run() {
     console.log(versionParts)
     // increment the patch version
     // join the parts back together
-    const newVersion = `v${versionParts.join('.')}`;
+    const newVersion = versionParts.join('.');
 
 
     console.log(`Old version: ${version}. New version: ${newVersion}`)
@@ -69,6 +71,7 @@ async function run() {
 async function commitChanges(filePath) {
   const commitMessage = 'Commit message here';
   const newContent = 'New content to be added';
+  const githubToken = core.getInput('githubToken');
 
 
   // Get the repository owner and name
@@ -93,6 +96,12 @@ async function commitChanges(filePath) {
       {
         content: newContent,
         encoding: 'utf-8',
+      },
+      {
+        headers: {
+          Accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
+          Authorization: `Bearer ${githubToken}`,
+        },
       }
     );
     console.log('blobResponse: ' + blobResponse.data)