Question

A developer on a GitHub Copilot Business plan is writing code and receives a suggestion. Their organization has enabled the setting that blocks suggestions matching public code. As the suggestion is generated but before it reaches the developer's editor, where does the check against public code occur, and what happens to a matching suggestion?

Accepted Answer

A filter in the Copilot proxy compares the generated suggestion against an index of public code on GitHub and blocks suggestions of roughly 150 characters or more that match, before they are returned to the client.

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The client-side IDE extension compares the suggestion against a locally cached index of public repositories and discards matches before displaying them.

Answer

The large language model is instructed via the prompt to avoid generating any code that resembles public repositories, so no separate filtering step is needed.

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GitHub scans the developer's committed code after the fact and flags any pushes that contain code matching public repositories in the audit log.