Question

A developer on a Copilot Business plan has the 'Suggestions matching public code' filter set to 'Blocked' at the organization level. While writing a common sorting utility, they notice that Copilot sometimes produces no suggestion at all where they expected one. They ask you why completions occasionally disappear entirely instead of just showing an altered version. What is the correct explanation of how the filter behaves in this situation?

Accepted Answer

When a candidate suggestion matches public code (roughly 150+ characters), the filter suppresses that entire suggestion rather than rewriting it, so no completion is shown for that candidate.

Answer

The filter rewrites any matching suggestion to a paraphrased, license-safe version before displaying it, so a missing suggestion indicates a network error rather than the filter.

Answer

The filter disables all Copilot completions in the file as soon as one match is detected, and suggestions resume only after the developer edits a different file.

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The filter scans the matched code against its license, and only suggestions under copyleft licenses are removed while permissively licensed matches are still shown.