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docs: add Copilot coding agent permissions reference
Mar 18, 2026
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No documentation existed describing what the GitHub Copilot coding agent can and cannot do within this repository.
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doc/copilot-agent-permissions.md— new document covering read permissions (repo contents, issues, PRs, CI logs, scanning alerts, branches/tags), write permissions (file commits viareport_progress, PR description updates), and explicit limitations (no new PRs, no directgit push, single-repo scope, no secret access)README.md— added link to the new doc📱 Kick off Copilot coding agent tasks wherever you are with GitHub Mobile, available on iOS and Android.