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June 26, 20251 Minute Read

GitHub Actions fine-grain permissions are now generally available for custom repository roles

GitHub Actions fine-grained permissions are now generally available and can be used to define custom repository roles.

Last year, GitHub introduced the CI/CD Admin role—a pre-defined organization role that grants comprehensive CI/CD permissions across all repositories in an organization.

With this release, organization administrators can now create custom repository roles with specific GitHub Actions permissions. This includes Actions general settings, manage runners, manage secrets, manage variables, and manage environments (including environment secrets and variables).

For more information on repository roles, please refer to our documentation.

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GitHub Actions fine-grain permissions are now generally available for custom repository roles - GitHub Changelog