It's a fair question, but likely not. There are "application credentials" or "API tokens" that get generated for various purposes and live long. There are man

It's a fair question, but likely not. There are "application credentials" or "API tokens" that get generated for various purposes and live long. There are many programs that do not support "credential helpers", abd those would need you to input an API token that is generated usually just once and has almost always has enough permission to clone a repository (at a minimum). The `hub` and `lab` CLI tools work exactly in this manner. If you are familiar with intellij: certain plugins that integrate with github or gitlab also require the generation of an access token so that you can do API calls to see merge requests and such: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou... & https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_tokens.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_toke... Applications that support credential helpers are docker (for optionally authenticating with docker registries) and git itself.