Question

A platform administrator adds a new content exclusion rule in the organization settings to block Copilot from accessing a directory containing proprietary configuration files. A developer on the team immediately opens a file in that directory and reports that Copilot is still generating completions based on its contents. What is the most likely explanation the administrator should give?

Accepted Answer

Content exclusion changes can take a period of time to propagate to developers' IDEs and may not apply instantly across all clients.

Answer

Content exclusions never apply to code completions, only to Copilot Chat, so the completion behavior is expected and permanent.

Answer

The developer must have local admin rights that override any organization-level content exclusion policy.

Answer

Content exclusions only work if the repository is hosted on GitHub Enterprise Server, not on GitHub.com.