Code of Conduct
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reactions/reactions?apiVersion=2026-03-10#create-reaction-for-an-issue-comment
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
The endpoint states the following:
The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:
"Issues" repository permissions (write)
X-Accepted-GitHub-Permissions. However most issue endpoints work (and are documented to work) with both issues=ACL and pull_requests=ACL (for example).
And indeed actually trying to POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{id}/reactions with just pull_requests=write seems to work fine.
Additional information
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Code of Conduct
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reactions/reactions?apiVersion=2026-03-10#create-reaction-for-an-issue-comment
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
The endpoint states the following:
X-Accepted-GitHub-Permissions. However most issue endpoints work (and are documented to work) with bothissues=ACLandpull_requests=ACL(for example).And indeed actually trying to
POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{id}/reactionswith justpull_requests=writeseems to work fine.Additional information
No response