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color: 'purple'
inputs:
copilot-token:
description: 'GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) with "Copilot Requests" permission. The default github.token does NOT have Copilot access - you must provide a PAT with the "Copilot Requests" scope. See: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=copilot'
description: 'GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) with "Copilot Requests" permission. The default github.token does NOT have Copilot access - you must provide a user-owned PAT with the "Copilot Requests" scope. Note: Organization-owned fine-grained PATs cannot have this permission due to GitHub platform limitations. See: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=copilot'
required: true
repo-token:
description: 'Token for standard GitHub repository operations (e.g., pushing commits, creating PRs). Defaults to copilot-token if not specified. You can use the default GITHUB_TOKEN here if you only need repo access.'
description: 'Token for standard GitHub repository operations (e.g., pushing commits, creating PRs). Defaults to copilot-token if not specified. For organization repositories, you can use the default GITHUB_TOKEN here while using a user PAT for copilot-token.'
required: false
default: ${{ github.token }}
prompt:
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