{"meta":{"title":"Feature availability when GitHub Copilot policies conflict in organizations","intro":"Learn how delegating Copilot policy decisions to organizations affects users granted a license by organizations with different policies.","product":"GitHub Copilot","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/copilot","title":"GitHub Copilot"},{"href":"/en/copilot/reference","title":"Reference"},{"href":"/en/copilot/reference/policy-conflicts","title":"Policy conflicts"}]},"body":"## About delegating policy decisions to organizations\n\nPolicies can be defined for a whole enterprise, or set at the organization level. See [GitHub Copilot policies to control availability of features and models](/en/copilot/concepts/policies).\n\nWhen 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.\n\n## How availability is determined\n\nFeature, 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.\n\n* **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.\n\n* **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.\n\n## Availability for members with Copilot from multiple organizations\n\n<!--The table below uses the following sort order:\n    1. Policies with \"Most restrictive\" at the top in alphabetic order.\n    2. Follow with remaining policies in alphabetic order.-->\n\n| Policy                                                                           | Availability matches           | More information                                                                                                                                                            |\n| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Copilot Metrics API                                                              | Most restrictive organization  | [REST API endpoints for Copilot metrics](/en/rest/copilot/copilot-metrics)                                                                                                  |\n| Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy)                                | Most restrictive organization  | [GitHub Copilot code suggestions in your IDE](/en/copilot/concepts/completions/code-suggestions)                                                                            |\n| Allow members without a Copilot license to use Copilot code review in GitHub.com | Most restrictive organization  | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot code review](/en/copilot/responsible-use/code-review)                                                                                    |\n| Copilot can search the web                                                       | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github#leveraging-a-web-search-to-answer-a-question)                                 |\n| Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile                                                    | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github-mobile)                                                                |\n| Copilot Chat in the IDE                                                          | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in your IDE](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-your-ide)                                                                          |\n| Copilot code review                                                              | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot code review](/en/copilot/responsible-use/code-review)                                                                                    |\n| Copilot coding agent                                                             | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot coding agent on GitHub.com](/en/copilot/responsible-use-of-github-copilot-features/responsible-use-of-copilot-coding-agent-on-githubcom) |\n| Spark                                                                            | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Spark](/en/copilot/responsible-use/spark)                                                                                                        |\n| Copilot in GitHub.com                                                            | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github)                                                                              |\n| Copilot in GitHub Desktop                                                        | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot in GitHub Desktop](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-in-github-desktop)                                                                |\n| Copilot CLI                                                                      | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot CLI](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-cli)                                                                                            |\n| Editor preview features                                                          | Least restrictive organization | [GitHub Pre-release License Terms](/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-pre-release-license-terms)                                                                           |\n| GitHub Models, one policy per model                                              | Least restrictive organization | [Managing your team's model usage](/en/github-models/github-models-at-scale/manage-models-at-scale)                                                                         |\n| MCP servers in Copilot                                                           | Least restrictive organization | [Extending GitHub Copilot coding agent with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)](/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/coding-agent/extending-copilot-coding-agent-with-mcp)        |\n| Copilot-generated commit messages                                                | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot commit message generation](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-commit-message-generation)                                                |\n\n## Next steps\n\n* [Managing policies and features for GitHub Copilot in your organization](/en/copilot/how-tos/administer/organizations/managing-policies-for-copilot-in-your-organization)\n* [Managing policies and features for GitHub Copilot in your enterprise](/en/copilot/how-tos/administer/enterprises/managing-policies-and-features-for-copilot-in-your-enterprise)"}