Add API support for “Never assign certain team members” in Team Code Review settings

[Hakakalmog]

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Hi GitHub team,
When setting up Team → Code review in the UI, there’s an option to “Never assign certain team members.”
But I don’t see any way to configure or even read that list through the REST or GraphQL API.

This makes it hard to manage teams with automation tools (Terraform, Python scripts, etc.), since we can’t exclude specific people programmatically.

Feature request:
Please expose this setting in the API (both read + write). For example:

REST: add a never_assign_members field under team code review settings.

GraphQL: add a field in TeamCodeReviewSettings.

This would let orgs keep reviewer rules consistent, avoid assigning admins/leads, and manage policies as code.

Thanks for considering!

[HPD666]

Hi! 👋

You’re correct—currently, the “Never assign certain team members” setting in GitHub’s UI is not exposed via REST or GraphQL APIs, so it can’t be managed programmatically.

Your feature request makes sense: exposing this in the API would let organizations automate reviewer rules and manage policies as code. The best next step is to submit it to GitHub’s feedback forum or feature request tracker so the team can prioritize it.

For now, manual configuration in the UI is required.

[HPD666]

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