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title: Codespaces user secrets
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shortTitle: User secrets
intro: 'The Codespaces user secrets API allows a user to create, list, and delete secrets (such as access tokens for cloud services) as well as assign secrets to repositories that the user has access to in a codespace.'
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  ghec: '*'
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  - API
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## About the Codespaces user secrets API

The Codespaces user secrets API allows a user to create, list, and delete secrets (such as access tokens for cloud services) as well as assign secrets to repositories that the user has access to. These secrets are made available to the codespace at runtime. For more information, see "[Managing encrypted secrets for your codespaces](/codespaces/managing-your-codespaces/managing-encrypted-secrets-for-your-codespaces)."