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!

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[povzayd]

GitHub’s “Never assign certain team members” setting for code reviews is currently only available in the web UI. You can’t manage or read that list through the REST or GraphQL API yet.
This means automation tools like Terraform or scripts can’t exclude specific team members from review assignments automatically. Your idea to add a never_assign_members field to the API makes perfect sense and would help organizations manage reviewer rules consistently.
For now, you have to set those exclusions manually in GitHub’s UI. It’s a great feature request to share with GitHub, so they can add this capability in future API updates.

[tdeo]

I had been waiting for this feature for a while as well and it seems it finally made its way into the GrapgQL API: UpdateTeamReviewAssignmentInput 🥳