Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve
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All installations with Personal Access Tokens (PAT) require: GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT): Create one here
Regardless of which installation method you choose, follow these security guidelines:
Limit Token Scope: Only grant necessary permissions to your GitHub PAT
- However, the list of permissions for
personal access token (classic) is too long. I think the documentation needs to provide a minimum list of required permissions. See https://github.com/settings/tokens/new .
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- Furthermore, the URL provided in the documentation is for creating the
personal access token (classic). I think the documentation should guide users to use the fine-grained personal access token, which only allows access to repositories within a specific scope, while the personal access token (classic) allows access to all unrelated repositories.
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Proposed solution
How will it benefit GitHub MCP Server and its users?
- This would obviously reduce the cognitive load.
Example prompts or workflows (for tools/toolsets only)
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Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve
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personal access token (classic)is too long. I think the documentation needs to provide a minimum list of required permissions. See https://github.com/settings/tokens/new .personal access token (classic). I think the documentation should guide users to use thefine-grained personal access token, which only allows access to repositories within a specific scope, while thepersonal access token (classic)allows access to all unrelated repositories.Proposed solution
How will it benefit GitHub MCP Server and its users?
Example prompts or workflows (for tools/toolsets only)
If it's a new tool or improvement, share 3–5 example prompts or workflows it would enable. Just enough detail to show the value. Clear, valuable use cases are more likely to get approved.
Additional context
Add any other context like screenshots or mockups are helpful, if applicable.