OAuth Scope required for Creating Github pull requests with Personal Access Token

Question

I need to create documentation giving instructions to generate a Personal Access Token that will only need to create Pull Requests on Github.

I've read the documentation describing the various OAuth scopes, but it is still not clear to me which OAuth scope(s) I need to select in order to be able create a Pull Request.

What OAuth scope(s) need to be selected for users to be able to create Pull Requests?

Answer 1

From https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/pulls#create-a-pull-request:

To open or update a pull request in a public repository, you must have write access to the head or the source branch. For organization-owned repositories, you must be a member of the organization that owns the repository to open or update a pull request.

Answer 2

The repos scope should be needed.

And, with the GitHub CLI gh v2.22.0 (Jan. 2023), you can search from within your local cloned GitHub repository:

See gh auth status --show-token: it will display the auth token you are using.