curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/agents/variables/example-name' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

# GET /orgs/{org}/agents/variables/{name} (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Get an organization variable

## Critical Gotchas
* GitHub recommends an `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` header and an explicit `X-GitHub-Api-Version` header.
* Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/agents/variables/example-name' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| org | path | string | Yes | The organization name. The name is not case sensitive. |
| name | path | string | Yes | The name of the variable. |

## Response example
{"name":"USERNAME","value":"octocat"}

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GET

GET /orgs/{org}/agents/variables/{name} — GitHub API

GitHub token (required); https://api.github.com

GitHub API

Get an organization variable

Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

GitHub recommends an Accept: application/vnd.github+json header and an explicit X-GitHub-Api-Version header.

Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/agents/variables/example-name' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
org	path	string	Yes	The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
name	path	string	Yes	The name of the variable.

Response 200 OK

{
  "name": "USERNAME",
  "value": "octocat",
  "created_at": "2019-01-24T22:45:36.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-01-24T22:45:36.000Z",
  "visibility": "all",
  "selected_repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/organizations/org/variables/USERNAME/repositories"
}

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