diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 667578cd98..f591827f1c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
-  DFCG_ARTIFACTS_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DFCG_ARTIFACTS_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
   CMC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.CMC_API_KEY }}
   APCA_API_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.APCA_API_KEY_ID }}
   APCA_API_SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.APCA_API_SECRET_KEY }}
@@ -56,6 +55,19 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
+      # Mint a short-lived, contents:read token for the private
+      # dfcg-artifacts repo via the blocksense-ci-token-provider GitHub
+      # App, replacing the long-lived DFCG_ARTIFACTS_ACCESS_TOKEN PAT.
+      - name: Mint dfcg-artifacts token
+        id: dfcg-token
+        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v1
+        with:
+          app-id: ${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN_PROVIDER_APP_ID }}
+          private-key: ${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN_PROVIDER_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          owner: blocksense-network
+          repositories: dfcg-artifacts
+          permission-contents: read
+
       - name: Install Nix
         uses: metacraft-labs/nixos-modules/.github/install-nix@main
         with:
@@ -75,6 +87,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Test all packages
         run: just test-ts
+        env:
+          DFCG_ARTIFACTS_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ steps.dfcg-token.outputs.token }}
 
   decoders-tests:
     timeout-minutes: 20
diff --git a/libs/ts/config-types/src/dfcg/artifacts/downloader.ts b/libs/ts/config-types/src/dfcg/artifacts/downloader.ts
index 8570939576..f84867063a 100644
--- a/libs/ts/config-types/src/dfcg/artifacts/downloader.ts
+++ b/libs/ts/config-types/src/dfcg/artifacts/downloader.ts
@@ -82,19 +82,26 @@ export async function isTokenValid(): Promise<boolean> {
   const octokit = new Octokit({ auth: GITHUB_TOKEN });
 
   try {
-    await octokit.rest.users.getAuthenticated();
+    // Probe access to the actual artifacts repo rather than `/user`.
+    // A GitHub App installation token (minted by the ci-token-provider
+    // App) is not a user, so `users.getAuthenticated()` returns 403
+    // ("Resource not accessible by integration") even when the token can
+    // read the repo. `repos.get` only needs metadata:read and works for
+    // both App installation tokens and classic PATs — and it checks the
+    // thing we actually care about: can we reach dfcg-artifacts.
+    await octokit.rest.repos.get({ owner: OWNER, repo: REPO });
     return true;
   } catch (error) {
     // Octokit can surface a RequestError from a differently-resolved copy of
     // `@octokit/request-error`, so `instanceof` is unreliable here. Fall back
-    // to the numeric `status` carried on the error so an invalid/expired token
-    // (401) makes us report the token as invalid — and callers skip — rather
-    // than crashing.
+    // to the numeric `status` carried on the error. A missing/expired/
+    // unauthorized token (401/403/404) means we can't read the repo, so the
+    // callers skip rather than crash.
     const status =
       error instanceof RequestError
         ? error.status
         : (error as { status?: number } | null)?.status;
-    if (status === 401) {
+    if (status === 401 || status === 403 || status === 404) {
       return false;
     }
     throw error;