diff --git a/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php b/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php
index f4cac28956..b9e5a1491a 100644
--- a/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php
+++ b/src/applications/conduit/call/ConduitCall.php
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ final class ConduitCall {
     $this->request->setUser($user);
 
     if ($this->shouldRequireAuthentication()) {
-      if (!$user->isLoggedIn()) {
+      // TODO: As per below, this should get centralized and cleaned up.
+      if (!$user->isLoggedIn() && !$user->isOmnipotent()) {
         throw new ConduitException("ERR-INVALID-AUTH");
       }
 
diff --git a/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php b/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php
index d7f66b0457..71f88f1a1e 100644
--- a/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php
+++ b/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ abstract class PhabricatorRepositoryCommitMessageParserWorker
         'corpus' => $message,
         'partial' => true,
       ));
-    $call->setUser($user);
+    $call->setUser(PhabricatorUser::getOmnipotentUser());
     $result = $call->execute();
 
     $field_values = $result['fields'];