About delegating policy decisions to organizations
Policies can be defined for a whole enterprise, or set at the organization level. See Copilot policies to control availability of features and models.
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.
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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.
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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
| Policy | Availability matches | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot Metrics API | Most restrictive organization | REST API endpoints for Copilot metrics |
| Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy) | Most restrictive organization | Copilot code suggestions in your IDE |
| Copilot can search the web | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub |
| Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile |
| Copilot Chat in the IDE | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in your IDE |
| Copilot coding agent | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of Copilot coding agent on GitHub.com |
| Copilot Extensions | Least restrictive organization | About building Copilot Extensions |
| Copilot in GitHub.com | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub |
| Copilot in GitHub Desktop | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot in GitHub Desktop |
| Copilot in the CLI | Least restrictive organization | Responsible use of GitHub Copilot in the CLI |
| Editor preview features | Least restrictive organization | GitHub Pre-release License Terms |
| GitHub Models, one policy per model | Least restrictive organization | Managing your team's model usage |
| MCP servers in Copilot | Least restrictive organization | Extending Copilot coding agent with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) |