GitHub Token

kpil requires a GitHub personal access token (PAT) to authenticate the Copilot CLI inside the container.

Required permission

No repository or organisation permissions are needed.

Create a fine-grained PAT

1. Go to GitHub → Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens → Fine-grained tokens
2. Click Generate new token
3. Set an expiration
4. Under Account permissions, set copilot_requests → Read and write
5. Click Generate token and copy the value

Use the token

export GH_TOKEN=github_pat_xxxxxxxxxxxx
kpil

The token is forwarded to the container via the GH_TOKEN environment variable and is never written to disk.