diff --git a/.github/workflows/fetch_all_tools.yaml b/.github/workflows/fetch_all_tools.yaml
index 114d521e..6c798772 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/fetch_all_tools.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fetch_all_tools.yaml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run script #needs PAT to access other repos
         run: | 
           bash ./bin/extract_all_tools_stepwise.sh "${{ matrix.subset }}"
-        env: 
+        env:
           GITHUB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GH_API_TOKEN }}
       - name: Commit all tools 
         # add or commit any changes in results if there was a change, merge with main and push as bot
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: main #pull latest code produced by job 1, not the revision that started the workflow (https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/439)
+          token:  ${{ secrets.GH_API_TOKEN }}
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       - name: Install requirement
         run: python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
@@ -77,4 +78,4 @@ jobs:
           git add results
           git status
           git diff --quiet && git diff --staged --quiet || (git commit -m "fetch all tools bot  - step merge") 
-          git push
\ No newline at end of file
+          git push
diff --git a/bin/extract_all_tools_stepwise.sh b/bin/extract_all_tools_stepwise.sh
index 7b9cac75..384b776f 100755
--- a/bin/extract_all_tools_stepwise.sh
+++ b/bin/extract_all_tools_stepwise.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ output="results/${1}_tools.tsv"
 
 python bin/extract_galaxy_tools.py \
         extractools \
-        --api $GITHUB_API_KEY \
-        --all_tools $output \
-        --planemorepository $1
-
+        --api "$GITHUB_API_KEY" \
+        --all_tools "$output" \
+        --planemorepository "$1"