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Only select repositories not Public repositories

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, typescript

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Repository access behavior with a fine-grained personal access token and a public repository, then trace the GitHub issue-creation integration. Done means confirming whether public repositories can be selected and used successfully, or documenting the supported access configuration if this is a GitHub limitation.

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Description

When defining the Repository access, I think you can't pick "Public repositories".

Screen shot of Repo section

Trying to debug this, AI gave me:

The likely root cause: your fine-grained PAT is read-only for public repos when set to “All repositories”

Look closely at your PAT screen:

“All repositories … Also includes public repositories (read-only).”

Your repo mgifford/whisper-slides is public. If GitHub is treating “All repositories” as “read/write for private you own, but public read-only”, then the token will fail exactly where you fail: POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues returns “Resource not accessible by personal access token”.

This matches your error.

ChatGPT recommended that I use Repository access: Only select repositories - and this worked.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
374
Forks
42
Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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