The wording of the "act on your behalf" message is very frustrating indeed. I don't like to think about how many app installs I've lost due to the wording of this message. I've had worried users query me about it directly, but presumably many more have just abandoned the installation without contacting me.

Here's another GitHub forum thread asking about it:

https://github.community/t/enable-you-to-trigger-actions-in-...

A trivial wording change would go a long way toward fixing this problem. Unfortunately according to GitHub Support (post 15 in that thread) "The current wording is not considered a bug."

:-(

Totally agree. I really wish GitHub would revise all of their permission wording. Several of these are unnecessarily scary or just plain weird, such as "Read access to emails" to refer to ability of an app to see your email address.

I can confirm this. I just created an app with 0 permissions (everything set to "no access"), and the page looks exactly like the screenshot in the article.

For QA Wolf we created a separate GitHub OAuth app just to avoid this UX bug

I realize that the thread is even by the same author as OP as well!