Question

A developer on a GitHub Copilot Business plan is working in VS Code. As they type, Copilot shows an inline ghost-text completion, but the developer keeps typing and never presses Tab to accept it. Their organization has data retention concerns and asks how this rejected suggestion is handled by Copilot's architecture. What is the correct description of what happens to that unaccepted inline suggestion?

Accepted Answer

For Copilot Business, the generated suggestion and the prompt are discarded and not retained after the suggestion is served; only the fact that a suggestion was shown may be captured as usage telemetry, not the code itself.

Answer

The suggestion is stored on GitHub's servers for 30 days regardless of plan so that Copilot can improve future suggestions in the same file.

Answer

Because the developer did not accept it, the suggestion is permanently saved and used to train the underlying foundation model on Business plans.

Answer

The rejected suggestion is written to the local IDE cache and synced to GitHub only when the developer next commits code.