You are creating an application that will use the code scanning Application Programming Interface (API)...

For a classic personal access token or OAuth token used with the code scanning REST API, security_events is an appropriate scope for retrieving code scanning security information. GitHub's endpoint for listing code scanning alerts across an organization requires appropriate organization authorization and supports tokens carrying security_events or, depending on repository visibility and token type, other qualifying repository scopes. The read:user scope relates to user-profile information, workflow provides permissions associated with GitHub Actions workflow files, and admin:org provides organization-management capabilities rather than specifically authorizing code scanning alert retrieval. Modern fine-grained personal access tokens use granular Code scanning alerts repository permissions instead of classic OAuth scopes, but among the options provided, security_events is the required security scope tested by the question.