Question

A developer at a company using GitHub Copilot Business asks Copilot Chat a question in the IDE: 'Why is this function throwing a null reference?' while a file is open in the editor. The developer wants to understand what data actually leaves their machine to answer this. Which description best reflects how Copilot builds and transmits the prompt for this chat request?

Accepted Answer

Copilot assembles a prompt from the user's question plus relevant context (such as the open file and selected code), sends it over an encrypted connection to the model service, and returns a generated response without retaining the prompt for training under Business terms.

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Copilot uploads the entire repository to GitHub's servers so the model can index all files before generating any chat response.

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Copilot runs the language model entirely on the local machine, so no prompt data ever leaves the developer's device.

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Copilot sends only the raw question text with no surrounding code context, because chat requests never include editor content.