| | --- |
| | 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](/copilot/concepts/policies). |
| |
|
| | 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 |
| |
|
| | <!--The table below uses the following sort order: |
| | 1. Policies with "Most restrictive" at the top in alphabetic order. |
| | 2. Follow with remaining policies in alphabetic order.--> |
| |
|
| | | Policy | Availability matches | More information | |
| | | :---- | :---- | :---- | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} Metrics API | Most restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/rest/copilot/copilot-metrics) | |
| | | Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy) | Most restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/concepts/completions/code-suggestions) | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} can search the web | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github#leveraging-a-web-search-to-answer-a-question) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_mobile_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github-mobile) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_short %} in the IDE | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-your-ide) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_code-review_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/code-review) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use-of-github-copilot-features/responsible-use-of-copilot-coding-agent-on-githubcom) | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_spark_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/spark) | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_desktop_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-in-github-desktop) | |
| | | {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-cli) | |
| | | Editor preview features | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/free-pro-team@latest/site-policy/github-terms/github-pre-release-license-terms) | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_github_models %}, one policy per model | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/github-models/github-models-at-scale/manage-models-at-scale) | |
| | | MCP servers in {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/using-github-copilot/coding-agent/extending-copilot-coding-agent-with-mcp) | |
| | | {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}-generated commit messages | Least restrictive organization | [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-commit-message-generation) | |
| | |
| | ## Next steps |
| | |
| | * [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/how-tos/administer/organizations/managing-policies-for-copilot-in-your-organization) |
| | * [AUTOTITLE](/copilot/how-tos/administer/enterprises/managing-policies-and-features-for-copilot-in-your-enterprise) |
| | |
