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GitHub App Permission Scopes for Coding Agents

Agents that read code risk exposing it to attackers through prompt injection attacks.

Solène Beaumont-Clair9 min read

Async Engineer

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Its broad repo scope bundles read, write, and settings access across repositories a user can access, a tradeoff that becomes harder to justify for autonomous work.
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