diff --git a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml
index 1f73414..afec914 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/git.yml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
         force_basic_auth: yes
         body:
           name: token_init_{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null length=5 chars=ascii_letters,digits') }}
+          scopes: ["write:user","write:organization"]
       register: gitea_api_token
 
     - name: Retrieve existing gitea configuration