Remove all protection from a branch

Delete a branch’s protection entirely — this opens its merge gate completely. Confirm this is what you want before calling it.

Call

delete_branch_protection {
  "owner": "<owner>",
  "repo": "<repo>",
  "branch": "<branch>",
  "confirmBranch": "<branch>"
}

confirmBranch must equal branch exactly. A mismatch throws confirmation_mismatch before any API call is made — this is a deliberate guard against removing protection from the wrong branch by typo, not an extra step to route around.

Result

{ "owner": "<owner>", "repo": "<repo>", "branch": "<branch>" }

Notes

There is no undo tool, and once deletion succeeds get-branch-protection.md has nothing left to read back. If you might want the current configuration again later, call get-branch-protection.md before deleting and record the result — then restore it afterward with update-branch-protection.md. This tool only removes classic branch protection; any rulesets governing the branch are untouched (see list-repo-rulesets.md).