codespaces.md

Guide to working with Codespaces using the CLI

For more information on Codespaces, see Codespaces section in GitHub Docs.

Access to other repositories

The codespace creation process will prompt you to review and authorize additional permissions defined in devcontainer.json at creation time:

{
  "customizations": {
    "codespaces": {
      "repositories": {
        "my_org/my_repo": {
          "permissions": {
            "issues": "write"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

However, any changes to codespaces customizations will not be re-evaluated for an existing codespace. This requires you to create a new codespace in order to authorize the new permissions using gh codespace create.

For more information, see "Repository access".

If additional access is needed for an existing codespace or access to a repository outside of your user or organization account, the use of a fine-grained personal access token as an environment variable or Codespaces secret might be considered.

For more information, see "Authenticating to repositories".