Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?

Yes, its been really useful personally for me. In fact, read a stat where 4% of Github contributions are happening via Claude Code today and they expect that number to reach to 20% of all worldwide contributions by the end of 2026.

I found it easier to create a fine-grained github token with minimal scope/permissions for the tasks I intend to delegate.

For context, I'm running multiple agents and each of them is isolated with its own token.

yep! it's really helpful. I have different accounts on my gitea server for various bots and agents with restricted access scopes. it's been great for making branch protections like mandatory reviews actually enforceable

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