Fine-grained personal access tokens are NOT drop-in replacements for classic PATs. Creating a new repo requires the "Administration: Read and write" permission, which isn't granted by default even when the token has repo-level access. Worse, "Repository access" must be set to "All repositories" — you can't pre-select repos because the new one doesn't exist yet. This trips up developers who assume fine-grained tokens are just a more secure version of classic tokens.
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