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Summary

GitHub organizations have pages on dev/null (#1262), but nobody on dev/null speaks for them yet. With this change, a member of an organization on GitHub can Claim its page, and the page lists them as its admins. Admins can't do anything more yet: this PR only establishes who they are.

  • The check: claiming asks GitHub once for the read:org scope, which sign-in doesn't ask for. Then it reads the user's own membership: GET /user/memberships/orgs/{org} must be active, with role admin or member. A plain member is enough. Invitations and billing managers don't count.
  • Restricted organizations: most organizations restrict OAuth apps (it's the default for new ones), and GitHub hides their memberships from apps their owners haven't approved. The page then explains this and links to GitHub, where an owner clicks Grant, or a member clicks Request to notify the owners. Once an owner approves, every member can claim. Organizations that use SAML single sign-on get a link to their sign-on page instead.

Data

A new table, organization_admins (organization, user, created_at):

  • Why: to record who claimed which organization's page.
  • Who sees it: everyone, on the organization's page. Each claim is also in the user's data export.
  • When it's deleted: a user's rows go when they erase their account (DeleteUser), and an organization's rows go when GitHub no longer has the org (DeleteOrganization). Both actions delete the rows themselves; there's no cascade.

Visual evidence

Claim button: @php-fig, not claimed yet

Before After
Before: php-fig, desktop light After: php-fig with Claim, desktop light
Before: php-fig, desktop dark After: php-fig with Claim, desktop dark
Before: php-fig, laptop light After: php-fig with Claim, laptop light
Before: php-fig, laptop dark After: php-fig with Claim, laptop dark
Before: php-fig, mobile light After: php-fig with Claim, mobile light
Before: php-fig, mobile dark After: php-fig with Claim, mobile dark

Admins: @brefphp, claimed by @mnapoli

Before After
Before: brefphp, desktop light After: brefphp with admins, desktop light
Before: brefphp, desktop dark After: brefphp with admins, desktop dark
Before: brefphp, laptop light After: brefphp with admins, laptop light
Before: brefphp, laptop dark After: brefphp with admins, laptop dark
Before: brefphp, mobile light After: brefphp with admins, mobile light
Before: brefphp, mobile dark After: brefphp with admins, mobile dark

Claim failed: @php-fig restricts OAuth apps (new state)

Light Dark
Restricted alert, desktop light Restricted alert, desktop dark
Restricted alert, laptop light Restricted alert, laptop dark
Restricted alert, mobile light Restricted alert, mobile dark

Keyboard focus on Open GitHub:

Focus on Open GitHub

GitHub approval page

Looks like this:
Screenshot 2026-10-28 at 21-29-53 Authorize application

Limitations

  • No sync with GitHub, by design: GitHub is only the way in. Leaving the organization on GitHub doesn't remove an admin; managing admins on /dev/null comes later.
  • Restricted orgs: in an organization that restricts OAuth apps, a member can't claim until an owner approves /dev/null on GitHub. The alert sends them there.
  • GitHub's wording: a restricted org is recognized from GitHub's error message. If GitHub rewords it, the claim fails with an error instead of the approval link.
  • Stale handles: an org renamed on GitHub but not yet resynced here gets "not a member" until its page refreshes.
  • Long admin lists: the Admins row isn't capped. A large organization with many claims would make it long.
  • Emulation only: mobile was checked in emulation, not on a device.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Signed-in users can claim an organization page after GitHub verifies their organization membership. Restricted access and single sign-on requirements display relevant guidance.
    • Organization pages list claimed admins in the order they made their claims.
    • Data exports include claimed organizations and claim dates. Claims remain if a user leaves an organization and are removed when their account is deleted.
  • Documentation

    • Updated organization-claim and privacy information to explain membership checks, approval requirements, and how claims are handled.

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Walkthrough

The change adds GitHub OAuth claims for organization pages, stores organization-admin associations, and displays admins and claim controls. It adds claimed organizations to account exports and detaches claim associations when an organization or user is deleted.

Changes: Organization page claims

Layer / File(s) Summary
Claim storage and relationships
database/migrations/*, app/Models/Profile.php, app/Models/User.php, app/Actions/CreateOrganizationAdmin.php
The migration and model relationships define organization-admin associations. The creation action adds an admin without detaching existing admins.
GitHub claim flow
app/Http/Requests/CreateOrganizationAdminRequest.php, app/Enums/GitHubOrganizationMembership.php, app/Services/GitHub.php, app/Http/Controllers/OrganizationAdminController.php, routes/web.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/OrganizationAdminControllerTest.php
Authenticated routes start GitHub OAuth and process its callback. The controller checks the GitHub account and membership before storing a claim. Failure handling includes guidance for restricted access and SSO.
Organization page display
app/Http/Controllers/OrganizationController.php, resources/js/pages/organization/show.tsx, resources/js/types/global.d.ts, tests/Feature/Controllers/OrganizationControllerTest.php
The page receives the claim URL and admins ordered by claim time. It displays claim controls, admin links, and failure guidance.
Claim export and deletion
app/Actions/CreateExport.php, app/Actions/DeleteOrganization.php, app/Actions/DeleteUser.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/ExportControllerTest.php, tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteOrganizationTest.php, tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteUserTest.php, resources/js/pages/privacy/show.tsx, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
Exports include claimed organization handles and timestamps. Organization and user deletion detach claim associations. The privacy policy and knowledge base describe claim data handling.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Member
  participant OrganizationAdminController
  participant GitHub
  participant CreateOrganizationAdmin
  Member->>OrganizationAdminController: Start claim and save organization ID
  OrganizationAdminController->>GitHub: Redirect for OAuth with read:org
  GitHub->>OrganizationAdminController: Return OAuth callback
  OrganizationAdminController->>GitHub: Check membership and organization ID
  OrganizationAdminController->>CreateOrganizationAdmin: Store confirmed claim
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Possibly related issues

  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#938: The issue proposes organization profiles managed by members or admins. This change lets eligible GitHub members claim organization pages.

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: nunomaduro

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 1ce0b

A rare concurrent duplicate claim may fail unexpectedly, but the remaining risk is localized.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 1ce0b

Claiming requires a signed-in user, matching GitHub identity, and active membership in the intended organization. Claims currently identify page admins without granting additional management powers. No authorization bypass was established, but concurrent authorization attempts and production deployment behavior are not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Within the inspected flow, a claimant can publish their own association with organizations whose membership GitHub confirms. Ordinary active members qualify by design. The write does not remove other claimants, and the observed consumers display, export, or delete associations rather than grant site-wide administrative authority. The association itself becomes publicly visible.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Both new routes require application authentication and are rate-limited. Initiation is a POST under the standard web middleware configuration. The callback rejects invalid OAuth state and mismatched GitHub accounts; membership verification rejects pending membership, unsupported roles, and a different organization ID, protecting against handle reassignment.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Pending claims use one session slot, consumed before callback validation. Overlapping attempts can replace pending context, and failures can require restarting the claim. The inspected denial paths precede persistence, so this establishes a bounded recovery limitation rather than an authorization bypass. Concurrent OAuth-provider state behavior was not verified.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before organization claims authorize privileged operations, define revocation and membership revalidation rules rather than treating the persistent association as proof of current GitHub membership.
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Fix the approval sentence.

Replace once an owner approved /dev/null with once an owner has approved /dev/null. The current wording is grammatically incomplete and can obscure the approval condition. The controller distinguishes owner approval from a member request. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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-Organizations that restrict third-party apps only share their members once an owner approved /dev/null:
+Organizations that restrict third-party apps only share their members once an owner has approved /dev/null:

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mnapoli force-pushed the feat/organization-claim branch from b32ca9c to 1ce0b9d Compare October 29, 2026 09:28
Claiming asks GitHub for the read:org scope, once, and checks the user's own
membership. Organizations restricting OAuth apps hide it until an owner
approves /dev/null, so the page then says where to approve it.
GitHub is only the way in: claims aren't kept in sync with memberships there.
…lation

The enum now says its memberships are GitHub's.
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mnapoli force-pushed the feat/organization-claim branch from 1ce0b9d to 9721cad Compare October 29, 2026 13:55
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