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Feature availability when GitHub Copilot policies conflict in organizations

Delegating Copilot policy decisions to organizations affects users granted a license by organizations with different policies.

About delegating policy decisions to organizations

Policies can be defined for a whole enterprise, or set at the organization level. See directivas de GitHub Copilot para empresas y organizaciones.

When an enterprise owner delegates control of a policy to organization owners by setting "No policy," some organizations may enable a feature while others disable it. Users may be granted a Copilot license by organizations with different policies for the same feature.

How availability is determined

Feature, model, and privacy settings for users are set according to the least restrictive or the most restrictive policy defined by any of the organizations where they are granted a Copilot license.

  • Least restrictive: if any of the organizations has enabled a feature, this feature is enabled for the user everywhere. This applies to all but the more sensitive Copilot features.

  • Most restrictive: if any of the organizations has disabled a feature, this feature is disabled for the user in all their organizations. This applies only to the most sensitive Copilot features, for example: access to Copilot metrics using the API.

Availability for members with Copilot from multiple organizations

PolicyAvailability matchesMore information
Copilot Metrics APIMost restrictive organizationNot applicable
Semantic indexing for non-GitHub repositoriesMost restrictive organization (only available when all organizations explicitly set Enabled; Unconfigured behaves as disabled)Indexación de repositorios para GitHub Copilot
Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy)Most restrictive organizationSugerencias de código de GitHub Copilot en tu IDE
Allow members without a Copilot license to use revisión de código Copilot in GitHub.comMost restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: agentes de GitHub Copilot
Copilot can search the webLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
Copilot Chat en GitHub MobileLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
Chat de Copiloto in the IDELeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
Chat de Copiloto agent mode in the IDELeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
revisión de código CopilotLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: agentes de GitHub Copilot
agente en la nube de CopilotLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: agentes de GitHub Copilot
SparkLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: agentes de GitHub Copilot
Copilot in GitHub.comLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
Copilot en GitHub DesktopLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub
CLI de CopilotLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: agentes de GitHub Copilot
aplicación Copilot de GitHubLeast restrictive organizationAcerca del aplicación Copilot de GitHub
Editor preview featuresLeast restrictive organizationTérminos de licencia de la versión preliminar de GitHub
MCP servers in CopilotLeast restrictive organizationConfiguración de servidores MCP para el repositorio
Copilot-generated commit messagesLeast restrictive organizationTarjeta de aplicación: Copilot Chat de GitHub

Availability for members with Copilot from multiple enterprises

If a user receives a license from multiple different enterprises, the most restrictive policy usually applies. The exceptions are:

  • AI credit paid usage (this applies to each enterprise, not the user)
  • GitHub Spark

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