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title: "What permissions does the GitHub Personal Access Token need?"
description: "The following permissions are needed for the Code Change Review feature to work. For the classic Personal Access Token, the following scopes are required: repo read:user For the fine-grained Personal Access Token, the following permissions are required: Contents Metadata Pull requests"
category: "Frequently Asked Questions"
section: "General"
keywords: ["token permissions", "github personal", "personal access", "access token", "required", "contents metadata", "feature work", "needed code"]
source_url: "https://support.ketryx.com/hc/en-us/articles/21747340784269-What-permissions-does-the-GitHub-Personal-Access-Token-need"
last_reviewed: 2026-06-11
---

# What permissions does the GitHub Personal Access Token need?

The following permissions are needed for the Code Change Review feature to work.

For the classic _Personal Access Token_, the following scopes are required:

- `repo`

- `read:user`

For the fine-grained _Personal Access Token_, the following permissions are required:

- _Contents_

- _Metadata_

- _Pull requests_

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