The same person creating separate accounts for automation is explicitly permitted however: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

Their Terms of Service (https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...) say: One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).

I was told by GitHub Support less than a month ago that in order for Actions to trigger other Actions I'd need to make a new separate account with repo access and have them act using its PAT.

I have one free personal account and a paid account for work. So I don’t think it’s against their TOS

wat

Never heard such a restriction even mentioned, let alone enforced.

Well you just heard. At least they say “we do not recommend creating more than one account” at the moment. https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

Enforced — of course not (guess why I was told), but it stands to reason that they probably won’t add a feature to facilitate TOS violation.

GitHub is not what it used to be when this "restriction" was made. These days, where a lot of companies decide to go with github, it's not uncommon for people to have one personal account and one work account.

This becomes messy to manage, as it's not easy(as far as I know) to use the same account on your personal PC to do both personal and work work.