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Expand Up @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ When creating your fine-grained access token, select the following permissions d

To clone and search private repositories, we need [a GitHub access token](#github-api-access) with the required scopes and at least read access to the relevant private repositories.

<Callout type="note">Due to GitHub limitations, non-admins of an outside organization must use a (Classic personal access token)[https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/managing-your-personal-access-tokens#types-of-personal-access-tokens] to provision the appropriate permissions for Sourcegraph to index that organization's private repositories.</Callout>

For more details, see [GitHub API access](#github-api-access).

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