First of all, when creating automation tokens (e.g. for coder/setup-action), you typically want either an unlimited lifetime or a lifetime specified in years/months not hours (which is the largest unit supported by our tokens create command).

This leads to instructions like:

coder token create --lifetime 8760h --name "GitHub Actions"

and mental arithmetic to figure out that token exists for a year.

Secondly, our default lifetime in the CLI appears quite arbitrary at 30 days. A more reasonable default is unlimited, and if the deployment doesn't allow that we can retry the request with whatever the maximum lifetime is.