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Thanks @jsoref for the tip. I received a response that explains why it doesn’t work in my situation.

For anyone else ending up here:

“It is currently not possible to fork private repositories due to how GitHub App permission works. GitHub Apps permission is based on installations – each installation’s permissions are separate from the others. And since an installation is scoped to a specific account (the account on which the App was installed), that means that GitHub Apps permissions are limited to a specific account.”

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