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Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

owner_type is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects owner_type on POST /agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/automations. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends POST /agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/automations (owner_type).

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
POST /agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/automations · owner_typepresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/automations", {
  // owner_type is now ignored, not rejected
  owner_type: value,
});

Based on GitHub’s published API specification. How severity is decided.