diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 3efdf4e68cfa50f0af949fa171a5c839ca9927bc..abdfac5cccef9f627c1c81ac12564a655b4d641a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ image: rocker/verse:3.4.1
 
 pages:
   stage: deploy
+  env:
+    GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GIT_TOKEN }}
   script:
   - Rscript -e "devtools::install_github('rstudio/fontawesome')"
   - Rscript -e "bookdown::render_book('index.Rmd', 'all', output_dir = 'public')"