From 37e94ba0d2aa5329aa23b0b6ae85970ba26ec1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Melissa=20Weber=20Mendon=C3=A7a?= <melissawm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 15:53:38 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: Set option to skip internal contributors to PR welcome
 message

---
 .github/workflows/pr_welcome.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr_welcome.yml b/.github/workflows/pr_welcome.yml
index 48691e61d87b..18f68836dc81 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr_welcome.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr_welcome.yml
@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ jobs:
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
       - uses: plbstl/first-contribution@7c31f41b0e7a70adfcae06cf964679f61af6780b  # v4.3.0
+        env:
+          GH_PAT_READ_ORG: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_READ_ORG }}
         with:
           labels: first-contribution
+          skip-internal-contributors: true
           pr-opened-msg: >+
             Thank you for opening your first PR into Matplotlib!