docs: clarify fine-grained PAT requirements for organization-owned Projects v2#7449
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[WIP] Update ProjectOps documentation for organization-owned projects
docs: clarify fine-grained PAT requirements for organization-owned Projects v2
Dec 23, 2025
Clarified token requirements for user and organization-owned projects, specifying classic and fine-grained PATs with necessary scopes.
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Organization-owned Projects v2 with fine-grained PATs require explicit permissions that weren't clearly documented. This caused confusion about which permissions are needed for both the GitHub MCP toolset and the
update-projectsafe output.Changes
projectops.mdtools.githubandsafe-outputs.update-projectconfigurationtokens.mdConfiguration Pattern
The token requires:
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