diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/components/RepositoryFinder.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/components/RepositoryFinder.tsx
index 3fa6ca2486abe8..1d6efc6cf782de 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/components/RepositoryFinder.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/components/RepositoryFinder.tsx
@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ import { FC, useCallback, useMemo, useState } from "react";
 import { Combobox, ComboboxElement, ComboboxSelectedItem } from "./podkit/combobox/Combobox";
 import RepositorySVG from "../icons/Repository.svg";
 import { ReactComponent as RepositoryIcon } from "../icons/RepositoryWithColor.svg";
-import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
 import { MiddleDot } from "./typography/MiddleDot";
 import { useUnifiedRepositorySearch } from "../data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query";
 import { useAuthProviderDescriptions } from "../data/auth-providers/auth-provider-descriptions-query";
 import { ReactComponent as Exclamation2 } from "../images/exclamation2.svg";
 import { AuthProviderType } from "@gitpod/public-api/lib/gitpod/v1/authprovider_pb";
+import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/public-api/lib/gitpod/v1/scm_pb";
 
 interface RepositoryFinderProps {
     selectedContextURL?: string;
-    selectedProjectID?: string;
+    selectedConfigurationId?: string;
     disabled?: boolean;
     expanded?: boolean;
     excludeProjects?: boolean;
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ interface RepositoryFinderProps {
 
 export default function RepositoryFinder({
     selectedContextURL,
-    selectedProjectID,
+    selectedConfigurationId: selectedProjectID,
     disabled,
     expanded,
     excludeProjects = false,
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
         (selectedID: string) => {
             // selectedId is either projectId or repo url
             const matchingSuggestion = repos?.find((repo) => {
-                if (repo.projectId) {
-                    return repo.projectId === selectedID;
+                if (repo.configurationId) {
+                    return repo.configurationId === selectedID;
                 }
 
                 return repo.url === selectedID;
@@ -57,9 +57,11 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
                 return;
             }
 
-            onChange?.({
-                url: selectedID,
-            });
+            onChange?.(
+                new SuggestedRepository({
+                    url: selectedID,
+                }),
+            );
         },
         [onChange, repos],
     );
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
     const selectedSuggestion = useMemo(() => {
         let match = repos?.find((repo) => {
             if (selectedProjectID) {
-                return repo.projectId === selectedProjectID;
+                return repo.configurationId === selectedProjectID;
             }
 
             return repo.url === selectedContextURL;
@@ -76,18 +78,15 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
 
         // If no match, it's a context url that was typed/pasted in, so treat it like a suggestion w/ just a url
         if (!match && selectedContextURL) {
-            match = {
+            match = new SuggestedRepository({
                 url: selectedContextURL,
-            };
+            });
         }
 
         // This means we found a matching project, but the context url is different
         // user may be using a pr or branch url, so we want to make sure and use that w/ the matching project
-        if (match && match.projectId && selectedContextURL && match.url !== selectedContextURL) {
-            match = {
-                ...match,
-                url: selectedContextURL,
-            };
+        if (match && match.configurationId && selectedContextURL && match.url !== selectedContextURL) {
+            match.url = selectedContextURL;
         }
 
         return match;
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
         (searchString: string) => {
             const result = repos.map((repo) => {
                 return {
-                    id: repo.projectId || repo.url,
+                    id: repo.configurationId || repo.url,
                     element: <SuggestedRepositoryOption repo={repo} />,
                     isSelectable: true,
                 } as ComboboxElement;
@@ -169,15 +168,15 @@ export default function RepositoryFinder({
                 title={
                     <div className="truncate">
                         {displayContextUrl(
-                            selectedSuggestion?.projectName ||
-                                selectedSuggestion?.repositoryName ||
+                            selectedSuggestion?.configurationName ||
+                                selectedSuggestion?.repoName ||
                                 selectedSuggestion?.url,
                         ) || "Select a repository"}
                     </div>
                 }
                 subtitle={
                     // Only show the url if we have a project or repo name, otherwise it's redundant w/ the title
-                    selectedSuggestion?.projectName || selectedSuggestion?.repositoryName
+                    selectedSuggestion?.configurationName || selectedSuggestion?.repoName
                         ? displayContextUrl(selectedSuggestion?.url)
                         : undefined
                 }
@@ -191,13 +190,13 @@ type SuggestedRepositoryOptionProps = {
     repo: SuggestedRepository;
 };
 const SuggestedRepositoryOption: FC<SuggestedRepositoryOptionProps> = ({ repo }) => {
-    const name = repo.projectName || repo.repositoryName;
+    const name = repo.configurationName || repo.repoName;
     const repoPath = stripOffProtocol(repo.url);
 
     return (
         <div
             className="flex flex-row items-center overflow-hidden"
-            aria-label={`${repo.projectId ? "Project" : "Repo"}: ${repo.url}`}
+            aria-label={`${repo.configurationId ? "Project" : "Repo"}: ${repo.url}`}
         >
             <span className={"pr-2"}>
                 <RepositoryIcon className={`w-5 h-5 text-gray-400`} />
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
index d56e6a728db82b..828e6a683f80a8 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
@@ -4,23 +4,23 @@
  * See License.AGPL.txt in the project root for license information.
  */
 
-import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
+import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/public-api/lib/gitpod/v1/scm_pb";
 import { deduplicateAndFilterRepositories } from "./unified-repositories-search-query";
 
 function repo(name: string, project?: string): SuggestedRepository {
-    return {
+    return new SuggestedRepository({
         url: `http://github.com/efu3he4rf/${name}`,
-        repositoryName: name,
-        projectName: project,
-        projectId: project,
-    };
+        repoName: name,
+        configurationName: project,
+        configurationId: project,
+    });
 }
 
 test("it should deduplicate non-project entries", () => {
     const suggestedRepos: SuggestedRepository[] = [repo("foo"), repo("foo2"), repo("foo", "project-foo")];
     const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foo", false, suggestedRepos);
     expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(2);
-    expect(deduplicated[1].projectName).toEqual("project-foo");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].configurationName).toEqual("project-foo");
 });
 
 test("it should not deduplicate project entries", () => {
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ test("it should exclude project entries", () => {
     ];
     const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foo", true, suggestedRepos);
     expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(2);
-    expect(deduplicated[0].repositoryName).toEqual("foo");
-    expect(deduplicated[1].repositoryName).toEqual("foo2");
+    expect(deduplicated[0].repoName).toEqual("foo");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].repoName).toEqual("foo2");
 });
 
 test("it should match entries in url as well as poject name", () => {
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ test("it keeps the order", () => {
         repo("bar", "FOOtest"),
     ];
     const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foot", false, suggestedRepos);
-    expect(deduplicated[0].repositoryName).toEqual("somefOOtest");
-    expect(deduplicated[1].repositoryName).toEqual("Footest");
-    expect(deduplicated[2].projectName).toEqual("someFootest");
-    expect(deduplicated[3].projectName).toEqual("FOOtest");
+    expect(deduplicated[0].repoName).toEqual("somefOOtest");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].repoName).toEqual("Footest");
+    expect(deduplicated[2].configurationName).toEqual("someFootest");
+    expect(deduplicated[3].configurationName).toEqual("FOOtest");
 });
 
 test("it should return all repositories without duplicates when excludeProjects is true", () => {
@@ -88,6 +88,6 @@ test("it should return all repositories without duplicates when excludeProjects
     ];
     const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foo", true, suggestedRepos);
     expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(2);
-    expect(deduplicated[0].repositoryName).toEqual("foo");
-    expect(deduplicated[1].repositoryName).toEqual("bar");
+    expect(deduplicated[0].repoName).toEqual("foo");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].repoName).toEqual("bar");
 });
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
index 4ad1c834ff969c..197c45aa777a4d 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See License.AGPL.txt in the project root for license information.
  */
 
-import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
+import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/public-api/lib/gitpod/v1/scm_pb";
 import { useSearchRepositories } from "./search-repositories-query";
 import { useSuggestedRepositories } from "./suggested-repositories-query";
 import { useMemo } from "react";
@@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ export function deduplicateAndFilterRepositories(
     const reposWithProject = new Set<string>();
     if (!excludeProjects) {
         suggestedRepos.forEach((r) => {
-            if (r.projectId) {
+            if (r.configurationId) {
                 reposWithProject.add(r.url);
             }
         });
     }
     for (const repo of suggestedRepos) {
         // filter out project-less entries if an entry with a project exists
-        if (!repo.projectId && reposWithProject.has(repo.url)) {
+        if (!repo.configurationId && reposWithProject.has(repo.url)) {
             continue;
         }
         // filter out entries that don't match the search string
-        if (!`${repo.url}${repo.projectName || ""}`.toLowerCase().includes(normalizedSearchString)) {
+        if (!`${repo.url}${repo.configurationName || ""}`.toLowerCase().includes(normalizedSearchString)) {
             continue;
         }
         // filter out duplicates
-        const key = `${repo.url}:${excludeProjects ? "" : repo.projectId || "no-project"}`;
+        const key = `${repo.url}:${excludeProjects ? "" : repo.configurationId || "no-project"}`;
         if (collected.has(key)) {
             continue;
         }
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ export function deduplicateAndFilterRepositories(
         try {
             // If the normalizedSearchString is a URL, and it's not present in the proposed results, "artificially" add it here.
             new URL(normalizedSearchString);
-            results.push({ url: normalizedSearchString });
+            results.push(
+                new SuggestedRepository({
+                    url: normalizedSearchString,
+                }),
+            );
         } catch {}
     }
 
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/projects/create-project-modal/CreateProjectModal.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/projects/create-project-modal/CreateProjectModal.tsx
index 67b4ec803622f1..ed238f442a5bc8 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/projects/create-project-modal/CreateProjectModal.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/projects/create-project-modal/CreateProjectModal.tsx
@@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ import { FC, useCallback, useState } from "react";
 import Modal, { ModalBody, ModalFooter, ModalFooterAlert, ModalHeader } from "../../components/Modal";
 import { Button } from "../../components/Button";
 import { CreateProjectArgs, useCreateProject } from "../../data/projects/create-project-mutation";
-import { Project, SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
+import { Project } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
 import RepositoryFinder from "../../components/RepositoryFinder";
 import { InputField } from "../../components/forms/InputField";
 import { AuthorizeGit, useNeedsGitAuthorization } from "../../components/AuthorizeGit";
 import { useTemporaryState } from "../../hooks/use-temporary-value";
+import { SuggestedRepository } from "@gitpod/public-api/lib/gitpod/v1/scm_pb";
 
 type Props = {
     onCreated: (project: Project) => void;
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ export const CreateProjectModal: FC<Props> = ({ onClose, onCreated }) => {
                             <InputField label="Repository" className="mb-8 w-full">
                                 <RepositoryFinder
                                     selectedContextURL={selectedRepo?.url}
-                                    selectedProjectID={selectedRepo?.projectId}
+                                    selectedConfigurationId={selectedRepo?.configurationId}
                                     onChange={setSelectedRepo}
                                     excludeProjects
                                 />
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/repositories/create/ImportRepositoryModal.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/repositories/create/ImportRepositoryModal.tsx
index 7777aa6df8d3af..92bec1f63e9e05 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/repositories/create/ImportRepositoryModal.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/repositories/create/ImportRepositoryModal.tsx
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export const ImportRepositoryModal: FC<Props> = ({ onClose, onCreated }) => {
                             <InputField className="mb-8 w-full">
                                 <RepositoryFinder
                                     selectedContextURL={selectedRepo?.url}
-                                    selectedProjectID={selectedRepo?.projectId}
+                                    selectedConfigurationId={selectedRepo?.projectId}
                                     onChange={setSelectedRepo}
                                     excludeProjects
                                 />
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/workspaces/CreateWorkspacePage.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/workspaces/CreateWorkspacePage.tsx
index 25db0b676de797..bace526dec4a9d 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/workspaces/CreateWorkspacePage.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/workspaces/CreateWorkspacePage.tsx
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ export function CreateWorkspacePage() {
                         <RepositoryFinder
                             onChange={handleContextURLChange}
                             selectedContextURL={contextURL}
-                            selectedProjectID={selectedProjectID}
+                            selectedConfigurationId={selectedProjectID}
                             expanded={!contextURL}
                             disabled={createWorkspaceMutation.isStarting}
                         />