Document fine-grained PAT limitation for organization repositories#65
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Document fine-grained PAT limitation for organization repositories#65
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[WIP] Fix Copilot requests permission issue for organization-owned repos
Document fine-grained PAT limitation for organization repositories
Jan 9, 2026
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GitHub platform limitation: organization-owned fine-grained PATs cannot have "Copilot Requests" permission, blocking CI/CD automation for org repos.
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copilot-tokenandrepo-tokendescriptions to clarify org repo usageWorkaround Pattern
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copilot-tokenauthenticates with Copilot API using a user-owned PAT, whilerepo-tokenhandles repository operations with org credentials.Original prompt
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