A fine-grained GitHub Personal Access Token can successfully create a repository via the REST API, yet immediately 403 on the first git push to that same repo. The token doesn't auto-pair itself as a write resource for repos it just created — you have to edit the token's resource list and add 'Contents: Read and write' explicitly, even though you're the owner. Classic PATs with a repo scope skip this two-step entirely.
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