Codespaces Access and Ownership Settings

GitHub Codespaces has introduced new access and ownership settings, providing organizations more granular control over which members and outside collaborators are able to create codespaces on organization-owned private and internal repositories.

Owners of organizations on the Team or Enterprise plan can now select which of their organization's members or collaborators are allowed to use GitHub Codespaces on organization-owned private and internal repositories. In order to use GitHub Codespaces, an organization member or collaborator will need explicit access to GitHub Codespaces and either write or fork permissions on the repository.

Any members or collaborators not explicitly granted access will not be allowed to use GitHub Codespaces within the organization's private or internal repositories. Those members or collaborators may still use codespaces on public repositories owned by the organization, like any other GitHub user.

Additionally, organization administrators can select whether member or collaborator codespaces fall under organization or user ownership. Codespaces ownership dictates who pays for a codespace, which policies are applied, and where audit logs from codespace usage are sent. For organization owned codespaces, the organization pays for the codespace, organization policies apply, and the logs are sent to the organization. For an organization to own any codespaces, the organization administrator will need to set a spending limit in order to enable GitHub Codespaces within their organization. Enterprise Managed Users are not able to create user owned codespaces because their usage must be paid for by the enterprise.

Additional Resources

• Enabling or disabling GitHub Codespaces for your organization
• Managing GitHub Codespaces costs within your organization
• GitHub Codespaces audit log
• Choosing who owns and pays for codespaces in your organization
• Enforcing policies for GitHub Codespaces in your enterprise