[kannonboy]

Hey folks, Atlassian employee here! This isn't official comms but I wanted to identify myself in case there's any confusion :)

As is pointed out elsewhere on this thread, we're tracking the request to disable the feature here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67922

There are a couple of workarounds documented on it until we reach a proper resolution.

As to the concern around permissions, I believe the reason we're requesting both read and write access to GitHub repositories is that their OAuth implementation bundles the read & write scopes together (https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/unders...). There's just no way to request _just_ read access to repository metadata, which is all the Smart Link feature actually requires.

For Google Drive, which supports more granular scopes, we request _only_ read access, not write access as the title of this post implies.