From the source
GitHub is starting to enforce a global default policy for generally available Copilot features and supported client capabilities on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans.
- The company announced the policy in September and is now rolling out enforcement through October 26, so it may take effect at different times for different enterprises and organizations.
- Eligible features that administrators left unconfigured will be set according to the selected global default of Enabled, Disabled, or Let organizations decide.
- The change is one-time: later changes to the default policy will not alter feature policies that are already set.
- Explicit choices are preserved, so a feature an administrator enabled or disabled individually will not be changed by the rollout.
- Preview features remain opt-in, and a choice to opt into a preview that later becomes generally available is preserved.
- The policy covers eligible settings on "Features & clients" and "MCP servers in Copilot", which administrators can review under AI Controls, Copilot, Default policy for new features.
