Supported surfaces for GitHub Copilot policies

Which policies affect which Copilot features and surfaces?

GitHub Copilot is available across various surfaces: in IDEs, in the CLI, and as multiple agents and chat interfaces on the GitHub website.

A dedicated policy exists to enable or disable each supported feature or surface. Additionally, you can set various policies to customize or control the Copilot experience. However, not every policy applies to every available surface.

Hinweis

The following table documents whether specific policies apply to different surfaces, but does not necessarily reflect whether the equivalent functionality is available. For example, Copilot-Cloud-Agent can access the Internet, but the "Copilot can search the web" policy does not affect this capability.

Policy nameIDEsCopilot-Cloud-AgentThird-party agentsCopilot CLICopilot-Chat auf GitHubCopilot CodeüberprüfungSpark
Editor preview features
Copilot can search the web
Enable custom models
Suggestions matching public code11
MCP servers in Copilot
Restrict MCP access to registry servers
Content exclusion
Configure allowed models
Copilot Speicher

Footnotes

  1. Only supported in annotate mode. See Anwendungskarte: GitHub Copilot Agents. ↩ ↩2