Minor additions to gitignore and readme #222
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Pull Request Overview
This PR introduces minor documentation updates to improve setup instructions.
- Added a note specifying that the Personal Access Token requires at least the read:packages permission.
- Added a step for logging into ghcr.io using docker.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
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| 3. Lastly you will need to [Create a GitHub Personal Access Token](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new). | ||
| The MCP server can use many of the GitHub APIs, so enable the permissions that you feel comfortable granting your AI tools (to learn more about access tokens, please check out the [documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/managing-your-personal-access-tokens)). | ||
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| * Your PAT Token needs at least `read:packages` permission to be able to pull from `ghcr.io`. |
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Did you run into some issue here? As far as I'm aware the image is public and:
You can also access public container images anonymously.
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ah whoops ignore this pr for now :)
I just tested and it works without the pat.
I had some issues with the setup earlier. So I wiped everything and go through every option in the readme to check if I can add useful stuff to the readme.
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Update remote mcp server names that have a local counterpart
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This pr adds:
Prerequisitessection in the readme.