Create a team

To create a team, the authenticated user must be a member or owner of :org. By default, organization members can create teams. Organization owners can limit team creation to organization owners. For more information, see "Setting team creation permissions."

When you create a new team, you automatically become a team maintainer without explicitly adding yourself to the optional array of maintainers. For more information, see "About teams" in the GitHub Help documentation.

POST /orgs/:org/teams

Parameters

Name Type Description
name string Required. The name of the team.
description string The description of the team.
maintainers array of strings List GitHub IDs for organization members who will become team maintainers.
repo_names array of strings The full name (e.g., "organization-name/repository-name") of repositories to add the team to.
privacy string The level of privacy this team should have. The options are:
For a non-nested team:
* secret - only visible to organization owners and members of this team.
* closed - visible to all members of this organization.
Default: secret
For a parent or child team:
* closed - visible to all members of this organization.
Default for child team: closed
permission string Deprecated. The permission that new repositories will be added to the team with when none is specified. Can be one of:
* pull - team members can pull, but not push to or administer newly-added repositories.
* push - team members can pull and push, but not administer newly-added repositories.
* admin - team members can pull, push and administer newly-added repositories.
Default: pull.
parent_team_id integer The ID of a team to set as the parent team.

Example

{
  "name": "Justice League",
  "description": "A great team",
  "permission": "admin",
  "privacy": "closed"
}

Response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDQ6VGVhbTE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1",
  "html_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/justice-league",
  "name": "Justice League",
  "slug": "justice-league",
  "description": "A great team.",
  "privacy": "closed",
  "permission": "admin",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/members{/member}",
  "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/repos",
  "parent": null,
  "members_count": 3,
  "repos_count": 10,
  "created_at": "2017-07-14T16:53:42Z",
  "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
  "organization": {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization",
    "name": "github",
    "company": "GitHub",
    "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "email": "octocat@github.com",
    "twitter_username": "github",
    "is_verified": true,
    "has_organization_projects": true,
    "has_repository_projects": true,
    "public_repos": 2,
    "public_gists": 1,
    "followers": 20,
    "following": 0,
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
    "type": "Organization"
  }
}