Is it possible to sign commits created with project access tokens?

GitLab CI/CD
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Hello all

I have a simple job that creates a release commit on each push to the master branch:

    script:
        - git config --global user.email $CI_EMAIL
        - git config --global user.name $CI_NAME
        - <RELEASE>
        - git push --follow-tags https://ACCESS_TOKEN:$ACCESS_TOKEN@$CI_SERVER_HOST/$CI_PROJECT_PATH.git HEAD:$CURRENT_BRANCH

ACCESS_TOKEN is a project access token made available to CI via CI/CD variables.

However, after enabling mandatory signing for commits the code above fails with the following:

remote: GitLab: Commit must be signed with a GPG key

The documentation mentions that each access token has a bot user associated with it. But I can’t find any information on how to sign commits created with an access token.

We are using self-hosted Gitlab installation v15.11.3.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Sergey