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Code security / Secret scanning / Manage alerts /
Evaluating alerts from secret scanning
Applies to GitHub tokens only. For more information, see Checking a secret's validity.
Review a token's metadata. Applies to GitHub tokens only. For example
Apps / Creating GitHub Apps / Authenticate with a GitHub App /
Authenticating as a GitHub App
authenticate as a GitHub App in order to generate an installation access token or manage your app.
About authentication as a GitHub App
You must authenticate
GitHub Packages / Managing GitHub packages with workflows /
Publishing and installing a package with GitHub Actions
permissions, if your GitHub Actions workflow is using a personal access token to authenticate to a registry, we highly recommend you update your workflow
Code security / CodeQL CLI / Getting started /
Uploading CodeQL analysis results to GitHub
Generating a token for authentication with GitHub
Before you can upload your results to GitHub, you will first need to generate a personal access token.
Personal
Apps / Creating GitHub Apps / About creating GitHub Apps /
Deciding when to build a GitHub App
App in the following scenarios, instead of an OAuth app, personal access token, or GitHub Actions.
Using a GitHub App instead of an OAuth app
In general
GitHub Copilot / Troubleshooting /
Troubleshooting common issues with GitHub Copilot
error connecting to the GitHub API to request a token to use GitHub Copilot.
To request another token from api.github.com, try signing in and out of GitHub
GitHub Issues / Projects / Automating projects /
Automating Projects using Actions
GitHub App (recommended for organization projects) or a personal access token (recommended for user projects). Workflow examples for both approaches are
GitHub Actions / Self-hosted runners / Actions Runner Controller /
Authenticating to the GitHub API
(ARC) to the GitHub API by using a GitHub App or by using a personal access token (classic).
Note
You cannot authenticate using a GitHub App for runners at
Code security / Code scanning / Integrate with code scanning /
Using code scanning with your existing CI system
CodeQL queries.
Generating a token for authentication with GitHub
Each CI server needs a GitHub App or personal access token to use to upload results to
Apps / OAuth apps / Building OAuth apps /
Best practices for creating an OAuth app
control over which repositories the app can access, and use short-lived tokens. These properties can harden the security of your app by limiting the damage