# Manage GitHub Copilot seats using Teams

Are you looking for a better way to manage your Copilot seats? Managing this can be made simpler by adding a GitHub team for seat assignments, which allows any user assigned to a team to be automatically licensed.

In this post, I will cover how to create a secret GitHub team that is not visible to the organisation users and how to add this team to the assignments in Copilot settings.

## Create a Secret Team

1. Within your organisation, select the **Teams** tab and click the **New team** button
    
    ![Teams tab on GitHub org highlighted, along with the New teams button](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1722286864125/fa358e37-e0a3-4e17-a320-dfb220344870.png align="center")
    
2. Give your team an appropriate name that represents its purpose. Set the team's visibility to **Secret** and notifications to **Disabled**.
    
    ![Create new team window with copilot populated details](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1722287135090/56b917d3-3b81-4d6a-84b7-c8e2a86fd8e9.png align="center")
    
3. When ready, click the **Create team** button
    

## Add Team to Copilot Access

1. Select the **Settings** tab within your organisation
    
2. Select **Copilot** from the side menu and select **Access**. If you haven't already, enable Copilot on your organisation.
    
    ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1722287542404/88ad00ea-d2f4-486e-8aea-008bab8f1673.png align="center")
    
3. Under the heading **Copliot Business is active in your organization**, select the dropdown and choose **Enabled for: Selected members** from the options.
    
4. Then select the **Add seats** button
    
5. From here, search for the team you created and select **Continue to purchase**.
    

Now, every time you add a user to your Copilot team, they will automatically be assigned a seat, and there is no need to go into settings to make the purchase.

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