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 You'll need to set some environment flags. Check `sample-env` for what is available, and you can copy the file to `.env` in the root and add your settings there as well.
 
+### Personal Access Token
+
+You will need to provide a Github [Personal Access Token](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new). It will need `write:org` access in order to create comments.
 
 #### License