Question

A developer on a Copilot Business plan reports that after their organization admin enabled the 'Suggestions matching public code' filter (set to block), some code that was written last week still closely resembles a well-known open-source snippet. The developer worries the filter is broken. What is the correct explanation of the filter's behavior?

Accepted Answer

The filter only evaluates new suggestions generated after it was enabled; it cannot retroactively remove or rewrite code that was already accepted into the codebase.

Answer

The filter continuously scans the entire repository and should have removed the matching code, so the setting must not have propagated correctly.

Answer

The filter rewrites any previously accepted code that matches public sources the next time the file is opened in the editor.

Answer

The filter only applies to Copilot Chat responses, so completions accepted last week were never subject to it.