Skip to content

Navigation Menu

Sign in
Appearance settings

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

Provide feedback

We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly
Sign up
Appearance settings

docs: enhance REST API authentication guide with alerts and decision matrix #42385

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
luizcireno-crypto wants to merge 1 commit into github:main
base: main
Choose a base branch
Loading
from luizcireno-crypto:auth-docs-improvements

Conversation

@luizcireno-crypto
Copy link

@luizcireno-crypto luizcireno-crypto commented Jan 14, 2026

Summary

Significantly improves the REST API authentication documentation following all GitHub docs standards.

Key Improvements

  • ✅ Added proper alert formatting: [!IMPORTANT], [!WARNING], [!TIP], [!NOTE]
  • ✅ Created decision matrix table for authentication method selection
  • ✅ Added "Best practices summary" with clear dos/donts
  • ✅ Enhanced procedural navigation and workflow instructions
  • ✅ Consistent code formatting with language identifiers
  • ✅ Complete security focus and practical examples

Benefits

  • Users can quickly choose the right auth method for their use case
  • Clear security warnings prevent token exposure
  • Better structured for both beginners and advanced users
  • Consistent with GitHub docs style guide
 

...matrix
- Added [!IMPORTANT] and [!WARNING] security alerts
- Created decision matrix table for auth method selection
- Added 'Best practices summary' section
- Enhanced procedural clarity and navigation paths
- Consistent code formatting with language identifiers
- All changes follow GitHub docs style guide
Copy link
Contributor

How to review these changes 👓

Thank you for your contribution. To review these changes, choose one of the following options:

A Hubber will need to deploy your changes internally to review.

Table of review links

Note: Please update the URL for your staging server or codespace.

The table shows the files in the content directory that were changed in this pull request. This helps you review your changes on a staging server. Changes to the data directory are not included in this table.

Source Review Production What Changed
rest/authentication/authenticating-to-the-rest-api.md

Key: fpt: Free, Pro, Team; ghec: GitHub Enterprise Cloud; ghes: GitHub Enterprise Server

🤖 This comment is automatically generated.

@github-actions github-actions bot added the triage Do not begin working on this issue until triaged by the team label Jan 14, 2026
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Reviewers

No reviews

Assignees

No one assigned

Labels

triage Do not begin working on this issue until triaged by the team

Projects

None yet

Milestone

No milestone

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /