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- (Optional) Select the **delete_repo** scope permission if you want WingetCreate to automatically delete the forked repo that it created if the PR submission fails.
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> [!IMPORTANT]:
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> We currently do not support fine-grained GitHub tokens as we do not have the support for it yet from the GitHub APIs. See <https://github.com/microsoft/winget-create/issues/595> for more details.
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> Since we only support classic personal access tokens, we recommend creating a separate bot account to be used in a CI/CD pipeline. Follow the same steps above to create a PAT for the bot account and use that token in your automated pipelines.
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## Building the client
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### Prerequisites

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