Error installing any starter kit?

[riordanmb]

Unable to instrall any starter kit on existing site

php please starter-kit:install statamic/starter-kit-cool-writings

I get this error:

Composer could not authenticate with GitHub!
Please generate a personal access token at: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new
Then save your token for future use by running the following command:
composer config --global --auth github-oauth.github.com [your-token-here]
Error installing starter kit [statamic/starter-kit-cool-writings]. I am logged into github and have authenticated with a token and it still doesn't work. Though not sure why I need to do this?

[duncanmcclean]

Do you get any errors when you run the composer config command?

[riordanmb]

No I don’t.