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Security in GitHub Codespaces

Overview of the GitHub Codespaces security architecture, with guidelines to help you maintain security and minimize the risk of attack.

Overview of codespace security

GitHub Codespaces is designed to be security hardened by default. Consequently, you will need to ensure that your software development practices do not risk reducing the security posture of your codespace.

This guide describes the way GitHub Codespaces keeps your development environment secure and provides some of the good practices that will help maintain your security as you work. As with any development tool, remember that you should only open and work