Scope - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A scope is a named permission attached to an OAuth token that limits what actions the token may perform, such as repo:read or packages:write.
Requesting scopes
A client requests only the scopes it needs; the authorization server issues a token bounded to those scopes, and the API enforces them per request.
In CI/CD
Grant a pipeline token the narrowest scopes required, for example read-only for a test job and write only where a deploy truly needs it.
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