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> This is awesome and has huge potential to improve developer productivity! The only thing that it gives me pause is that it requires a very broad Github authorization. Do you really need to "be able to read and write all public and private repository data"? Compared to a regular search engine, the permissions required are pretty much the same. Both this & regular search engines need to go through a repo's codebase t…
Why does it need "write" permission?
Truthfully, it doesn't need to. Only read permissions are required.
It's possibly just a permission request mistake.