Over excessive permissions Request

[d1820]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Be able to control what repos and areas of GitHub the AI has access to

Proposed solution

When authenticating it asks for Read/Write to every single thing in your account. That seems a little extreme if i am trying to only work in 1 repository. Users should be able to control what it needs access to. Letting it have access to all private repos and gists is crazy.

Example prompts or workflows

No response

Additional context

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[williammartin]

Hey, unfortunately we're under some limitations needing to use an OAuth app which doesn't allow scoping to a repository. If this is really important to you, you can create a Fine Grained PAT and use it by setting COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN in your environment.