curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/issue-types' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "is_enabled": true
}'

# POST /orgs/{org}/issue-types (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Create issue type for an organization

## 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 POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/issue-types' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "is_enabled": true
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| org | path | string | Yes | The organization name. The name is not case sensitive. |
| name | body | string | Yes | Name of the issue type. |
| is_enabled | body | boolean | Yes | Whether or not the issue type is enabled at the organization level. |
| description | body | string | No | Description of the issue type. |
| color | body | string | No | Color for the issue type. |

## Response example
{"id":0,"node_id":"string"}

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POST

POST /orgs/{org}/issue-types — GitHub API

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

GitHub API

Create issue type for an organization

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 POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/issue-types' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "example-name",  "is_enabled": true}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
org	path	string	Yes	The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
name	body	string	Yes	Name of the issue type.
is_enabled	body	boolean	Yes	Whether or not the issue type is enabled at the organization level.
description	body	string	No	Description of the issue type.
color	body	string	No	Color for the issue type.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": 0,
  "node_id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "color": "gray",
  "created_at": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z",
  "is_enabled": true
}

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