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Repository permission·codespaces_metadata:read
Codespaces metadata: Read
Tier 3 · Low
Why Tier 3
Reads dev container and machine type options.
Data plane permissions start at Tier 2. This one is lowered for the reason above.
- Target
- Repository
- Plane
- DataCodespaces: Creating and running cloud development environments.
- Granted by
- Fine-grained PAT, GitHub App
- Available on
- Free, Team, Enterprise Cloud, EMU
What it unlocks
3 REST endpoints need this permission. A few of them:
- GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/codespaces/devcontainers
- GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/codespaces/machines
- GET /user/codespaces/{codespace_name}/machines
Roles that include it
No built-in role includes it. Only tokens, Apps or custom roles can grant it.
Classic scopes that reach it
- T2codespacedocumented
Attack paths
No attack technique, escalation or incident on ghtier goes through this yet.
GitHub Docs: Repository permissions for "Codespaces metadata"