What is GitHub’s fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) and how does it improve security over classic PATs?

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What is GitHub’s fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) and how does it improve security over classic PATs?

Key points

  • Fine-grained PATs offer repository-specific access
  • Classic PATs have coarse permission categories
  • Permission scopes are more precise with fine-grained PATs
  • Repository access is more restricted with fine-grained PATs

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