Question

A developer at a company with the 'Block suggestions matching public code' filter enabled is writing a common data-structure implementation. While typing, they notice Copilot sometimes offers no inline suggestion at all, whereas colleagues in an organization without the filter get suggestions in the same spot. The developer wants to understand what is happening. Which explanation is accurate?

Accepted Answer

When a candidate suggestion matches public code on GitHub, the filter suppresses that suggestion entirely, so the developer may see no suggestion rather than a modified one.

Answer

The filter rewrites the matching suggestion into a license-safe variation before showing it, so the developer should still always see a suggestion.

Answer

The filter has disabled Copilot completions for that entire file because a prior suggestion matched public code.

Answer

The absence of a suggestion means the developer's editor has lost connection to the Copilot proxy and must be restarted.