What permissions are needed to configure Dependabot?

Enabling Dependabot alerts/security updates and editing the dependabot.yml configuration generally requires write (or higher) access to the repository — the same level needed to push code changes, since a configuration change is itself a change to a file in the repository (or a repository settings toggle).

#  Repository roles that can typically configure Dependabot:
#  - Admin
#  - Write (Maintain, in organization repos)

For organization-wide settings (like enforcing Dependabot security updates as a default across every repository in the org), organization owner or admin-level permissions are typically required, since that's a broader policy decision affecting many repositories at once rather than a single repository's own configuration.

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