OTTR Token/Secret
Set Up or Update

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Last updated: December 04, 2025

Set up your GitHub personal access token

Click on your profile photo in the upper right

Go to Settings

Go to Developer Settings in the lower left side navigation

Click on Personal access tokens

Select Tokens (classic)

Click gray “Generate new token” button

Select Generate new token (classic)

Confirm your access

Name your token GH_PAT

Underneath Select Scopes, check both repo and workflow (all check boxes in those sections)

Click:

Generate token

Copy the personal access token and save somewhere safe and private

Click here to see GitHub documentation on creating a personal access token.

Save the copied personal access token as a repository secret

In your OTTR repository, go to Settings in the top navigation tabs

Go to Secrets and variables in the side navigation

Click on Actions

Under Repository secrets, click on

New repository secrets

Under Name, enter GH_PAT

For Secret, paste your copied personal access token

Click on:

Add secret

Click here to see GitHub documentation on setting repository secrets.

Authors: Kate Isaac wrote the content and created the original styling, Carrie Wright did the css styling and Carrie Wright and Candace Savonen did the publishing engineering for the cheatsheet. OTTR was created and or is maintained by the following team: Candace Savonen, Carrie Wright, Kate Isaac, Ava Hoffman, Katherine Cox, Federick Tan, John Muschelli, Howard Baek, and Jeffrey Leek.