401 errors

[joecarney]

Describe the bug

× Model call failed: "401 401 unauthorized: Personal Access Token does not have Copilot Requests permission\n"

× Execution failed: 401 401 unauthorized: Personal Access Token does not have Copilot Requests permission

I am logged in correctly. I have copilot in VSCode working perfectly. Every time I try anything from the command line I get this error. Have checked my Personal Access Token and everything is enabled

Affected version

0.0.327 Commit: 0cbec74

Steps to reproduce the behavior

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Expected behavior

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Additional context

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[devslimbr]

Same problem and the CLI policy was enabled from the beginning of my account
× Model call failed: "401 401 unauthorized: Personal Access Token does not have Copilot Requests permission\n"

× Execution failed: 401 401 unauthorized: Personal Access Token does not have Copilot Requests permission

[SteveSandersonMS]

Sorry about this! We're getting people to look into it and will post an update when we can.

[devm33]

Hi @joecarney @devslimbr, apologies we haven't documented the permission required for using a PAT with the CLI yet (opened #60 to track)

To authenticate with the Copilot CLI using a PAT:

1. It needs to be a fine-grained PAT: https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new
2. It must have the Copilot Requests permission enabled:
   
3. It needs to be passed via an environment variable GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN (in order of precedence):

    GITHUB_TOKEN='github_pat_patpatpat` copilot
   

[RyanHecht]

Added this to our README! https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/blob/main/README.md#authenticate-with-a-personal-access-token-pat

[RyanHecht]

We've improved the error message to make this clearer in https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/tag/v0.0.328!