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copilot-spaces

Add a collaborator to a Copilot Space for a user

Adds a collaborator to a specific Copilot Space owned by a user. The authenticated user must be the owner of the space or have admin access to the space.

Team collaborators are not supported for user-owned Copilot Spaces.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the user scope to use this endpoint.

post/users/{username}/copilot-spaces/{space_number}/collaborators

Path parameters

usernamestring required

The handle for the GitHub user account.

space_numberinteger required

The unique identifier of the Copilot Space.

Request body

actor_type'User' | 'Team' required

The type of actor (must be User for user-owned spaces; Team will be rejected).

actor_identifierstring required

The username of the collaborator. The numeric user ID is also accepted.

role'reader' | 'writer' | 'admin' required

The role to grant to the collaborator.

Response

Response

OR

Example response

{
  "login": "octocat",
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
  "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
  "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
  "user_view_type": "public"
}