GitHub Actions organization secrets
Actions secrets on a GitHub organization, reaching the repositories you choose.
Actions secrets on a GitHub organization, reaching the repositories you choose.
The connection
| What | This provider |
|---|---|
| Vendor | GitHub |
| Key | github-org-secrets |
| Availability | available. You can connect it today. |
| Credential penv holds | github-token |
| Values read back | no |
| Activation | immediate |
What it moves
| Direction | What it does |
|---|---|
export | Writes names and values from penv into the store. |
GitHub returns no value once it holds one, so penv can write here and cannot read back.
When a written value goes live
immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.
What happens to a name that exists
| Direction | Policies you can pick |
|---|---|
export | create_only, overwrite, overwrite_and_prune |
How syncs work says what each one does.
How you connect
You paste a credential you already hold. penv seals it and never shows it again.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
token | Access token | secret, masked here and sealed | yes | Needs admin:org. A repository-scoped token cannot reach the organization store. |
What a mapping asks for
Answered once per environment you map.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | Advanced | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
organization | Organization | text | yes | no | The organization whose Actions store this environment maps onto. |
visibility | Which repositories | choice | yes | yes | Private is the narrowest useful choice. All means every repository in the organization. One of Private and internal repositories, Every repository in the organization. Starts at private. |
Permissions it needs
penv probes for these when it verifies the connection.
| Permission | Directions | Blocking | Without it |
|---|---|---|---|
user:read | every direction | yes | We cannot confirm which GitHub account this token belongs to. |
admin:org | every direction | yes | Export cannot write organization secrets. |
Related
GitHub Dependabot organization secrets
Registry credentials for every repository in an organization, or only its private ones. The sync never changes which repositories reach a secret that already exists.
GitHub Enterprise Server Actions
Export secrets into Actions on your own GitHub Enterprise Server.