Setting team creation permissions in your organization

You can allow all organization members to create teams or limit team creation to organization owners.

Organization owners can set team creation permissions.

If you do not set team creation permissions, all organization members will be able to create teams by default.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Organizations.

  2. Select an organization by clicking on it.

  3. Under your organization name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.

    Screenshot of the tabs in an organization's profile. The "Settings" tab is outlined in dark orange.

  4. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Member privileges.

  5. Under "Team creation rules", select or deselect Allow members to create teams.

  6. Click Save.