Problem

When trying to create or publish an orb, you might come across one of the following authorization errors:

Error: Unable to find organization <YOUR_ORGANIZATION> of vcs-type GITHUB: Either the org 'github/<YOUR_ORGANIZATION>' does not exist or you do not have permission to view it.: the organization '<YOUR_ORGANIZATION>' under 'GITHUB' VCS-type does not exist. Did you misspell the organization or VCS?

Error: AUTHORIZATION_FAILURE

Error: User does not have access to publish SemVer orbs in this namespace.

Solutions:

• Verify that you have the right permission level to execute the command
  • You can find the required permissions for the orb commands in this permissions matrix in our documentation
• Your CircleCI API Token might have expired or became invalid
  
  • Please try generating a new personal API token.
    You will need to update the CircleCI CLI so that the CIRCLE_TOKEN environment variable is set to the new value. Please make sure the CIRCLE_TOKEN environment variable is also updated in any related contexts. This is usually "orb-publishing"
  • If you are not an admin of the organization and have been granted permission by the admin to publish an orb, please reach out to the admin user to generate a new API token.

Outcome

Once you have verified that your user has the correct permissions and the API token has been re-generated and updated on the CircleCI CLI and the orb publishing context, you should be able to run the commands again.

Additional Resources:

• Introduction to Authoring Orbs
• Create an orb
• Creating a personal API token
• Create and use context
• Ensure your orb-publishing context is restricted