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About delegated bypass for push protection

Maintain your secret security while unblocking trusted actors with delegated bypass for push protection.

Who can use this feature?

Delegated bypass for push protection is available for the following repository types:

Note

Delegated bypass for push protection is currently in beta and subject to change.

About delegated bypass for push protection

With delegated bypass for push protection, you can:

  • Grant bypass permissions to select individuals, roles, and teams, allowing them to push commits that are initially blocked by push protection.
  • Introduce a review cycle for bypass requests from all other contributors. Requests expire after 7 days.

Users with bypass privileges

The following types of users can always bypass push protection:

  • Organization owners
  • Security managers
  • Users in teams, default roles, or custom roles that have been added to the bypass list

Next steps

To start managing bypass privileges, see Enabling delegated bypass for push protection.