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Organization permission·organization_external_properties_for_repos:admin

External custom properties for repositories: Admin

Tier 2 · Medium

Why Tier 2

Lets Apps provide repository properties.

Management plane permissions start at Tier 1. This one is lowered for the reason above.

Context-dependent: the tier shown is the typical case. What the target is used for decides the real one.

Target
Organization
Plane
ManagementOrganization policy: Org and enterprise settings, rulesets, Actions policy, custom properties and Copilot controls.
Granted by
Fine-grained PAT, GitHub App
Available on
Free, Team, Enterprise Cloud, EMU

What it unlocks

2 REST endpoints need this permission. A few of them:

  • POST /orgs/{org}/properties/installations
  • GET /orgs/{org}/properties/installations

Roles that include it

No built-in role includes it. Only tokens, Apps or custom roles can grant it.

Classic scopes that reach it

No classic scope reaches it. Only fine-grained PATs, Apps or GITHUB_TOKEN can grant it.

Attack paths

No attack technique, escalation or incident on ghtier goes through this yet.

Other levels

GitHub Docs: Organization permissions for "External custom properties for repositories"