Before you continue
What TierUp can see
You are about to hand a stranger a token. Here is exactly what it is good for, in plain language, before you decide.
Always
- Your public profile: name, avatar, location, and the day you joined GitHub.
- Your verified email address, so we can send the Monday digest.
- How many contributions you made — including a count of private ones.
- Your public commits, pull requests, reviews, and issues.
Never
- Write anything, anywhere. No commits, no comments, no issues, no stars.
- See any repository you did not tick.
- Act on your behalf, or appear as you to anyone.
- Keep access after you remove it — revoking takes effect immediately.
Only for repositories you tick, on the same screen
Most real work happens in private repositories. GitHub will show you a list and you choose — all of them, some of them, or none. For the ones you tick, read-only:
- Read commit history and diffs in the repositories you tick — to count what you wrote.
- Read pull requests and reviews in those repositories.
- Read repository names and languages.