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Automatic Dependabot access to GitHub-hosted registries

UpdateVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Dependabot can now read from private GitHub Packages registries without a personal access token. If a package has granted your repository access through “Manage Actions access” in the package settings, Dependabot reuses that grant.

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