Question

A team lead on a GitHub Copilot Individual (Pro) subscription wants to prevent Copilot from using a proprietary configuration directory as context. They ask you how to configure content exclusion rules for their personal repositories under this subscription. What is the correct response?

Accepted Answer

Content exclusion is not available on the Copilot Individual/Pro plan; it requires Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise, where an organization or repository admin configures the rules.

Answer

They can enable content exclusion from their personal Copilot settings page under github.com/settings/copilot at any time.

Answer

They should add a .copilotignore file to the repository root, which works on all Copilot plans including Individual.

Answer

Content exclusion is automatically active for any repository marked private, so no configuration is needed on the Individual plan.