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gh-stack is impossible to install: API rate limit exceeded

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing gh extension install github/gh-stack and inspect the installation path that requests https://api.github.com/repos/github/gh-stack/releases/latest. Confirm the failure mode with an unauthenticated request and define the expected behavior; done means the extension can be installed without this rate-limit failure.

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Description

bug topic: cli - general 
% gh extension install github/gh-stack
could not check for binary extension: HTTP 403: API rate limit exceeded for A.B.C.D. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.) (https://api.github.com/repos/github/gh-stack/releases/latest)
Dominant language
Go
Stars
1.5k
Forks
73
Avg merge
1d 8h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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