8 automatic setup items
Choose automatic GitHub App login or manual token mode.
Automatic mode is best for 24/7 production. Manual mode works immediately with a fine-grained token and can validate access or create one transparent journal commit without storing the token.
Recommended for 24/7
Automatic Mode
Uses a GitHub App, Netlify Database, scheduled dispatcher, and background worker. This is the safest production path because GitHub installation tokens are short-lived and repository-scoped.
Automatic mode is not configured on Netlify yet.
NETLIFY_DATABASE_URLGITHUB_APP_SLUGGITHUB_APP_IDGITHUB_APP_CLIENT_IDGITHUB_APP_CLIENT_SECRETGITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEYSESSION_SECRETINTERNAL_JOB_SECRET
Works without app secrets
Manual Mode
Paste a fine-grained GitHub token, validate access, choose a writable repository, and create one transparent journal artifact. The token is not saved.
Create token
Only selected repositories.
Grant scope
Contents write, Metadata read.
No storage
Token is used once.