title: Feature availability when GitHub Copilot policies conflict in organizations
shortTitle: Policy conflicts
allowTitleToDifferFromFilename: true
intro: >-
Learn how delegating {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}
policy decisions to organizations affects users granted a license by
organizations with different policies.
versions:
feature: copilot
category:
- Learn about Copilot
topics:
- Copilot
- Policy
- Access management
- Organizations
- Enterprise
redirect_from:
- /copilot/reference/feature-availability-enterprise
contentType: reference
About delegating policy decisions to organizations
Policies can be defined for a whole enterprise, or set at the organization level. See AUTOTITLE.
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 {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} 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 {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} 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 {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} 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 {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} features, for example: access to {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} metrics using the API.
Availability for members with {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} from multiple organizations
| Policy | Availability matches | More information |
|---|---|---|
| {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} Metrics API | Most restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy) | Most restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} can search the web | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_mobile_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_short %} in the IDE | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_code-review_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.product.prodname_spark_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_desktop_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| Editor preview features | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.product.prodname_github_models %}, one policy per model | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| MCP servers in {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |
| {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}-generated commit messages | Least restrictive organization | AUTOTITLE |