# Feature availability when GitHub Copilot policies conflict in organizations

Learn how delegating Copilot policy decisions to organizations affects users granted a license by organizations with different policies.

## About delegating policy decisions to organizations

Policies can be defined for a whole enterprise, or set at the organization level. See [GitHub Copilot policies to control availability of features and models](/en/copilot/concepts/policies).

When an enterprise owner delegates control of a policy to organization owners by setting "No policy," some organizations may enable a feature while others disable it. Users may be granted a Copilot license by organizations with different policies for the same feature.

## How availability is determined

Feature, model, and privacy settings for users are set according to the **least restrictive** or the **most restrictive** policy defined by any of the organizations where they are granted a Copilot license.

* **Least restrictive:** if any of the organizations has **enabled** a feature, this feature is enabled for the user everywhere. This applies to all but the more sensitive Copilot features.

* **Most restrictive:** if any of the organizations has **disabled** a feature, this feature is disabled for the user in all their organizations. This applies only to the most sensitive Copilot features, for example: access to Copilot metrics using the API.

## Availability for members with Copilot from multiple organizations

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    1. Policies with "Most restrictive" at the top in alphabetic order.
    2. Follow with remaining policies in alphabetic order.-->

| Policy                                                                           | Availability matches           | More information                                                                                                                            |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Copilot Metrics API                                                              | Most restrictive organization  | Not applicable                                                                                                                              |
| Suggestions matching public code (privacy policy)                                | Most restrictive organization  | [GitHub Copilot code suggestions in your IDE](/en/copilot/concepts/completions/code-suggestions)                                            |
| Allow members without a Copilot license to use Copilot code review in GitHub.com | Most restrictive organization  | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot code review](/en/copilot/responsible-use/code-review)                                                    |
| Copilot can search the web                                                       | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github#leveraging-a-web-search-to-answer-a-question) |
| Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile                                                    | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github-mobile)                                |
| Copilot Chat in the IDE                                                          | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in your IDE](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-your-ide)                                          |
| Copilot Chat agent mode in the IDE                                               | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in your IDE](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-your-ide)                                          |
| Copilot code review                                                              | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot code review](/en/copilot/responsible-use/code-review)                                                    |
| Copilot cloud agent                                                              | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot cloud agent on GitHub.com](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-cloud-agent)                              |
| Spark                                                                            | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Spark](/en/copilot/responsible-use/spark)                                                                        |
| Copilot in GitHub.com                                                            | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub](/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-github)                                              |
| Copilot in GitHub Desktop                                                        | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot in GitHub Desktop](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-in-github-desktop)                                |
| Copilot CLI                                                                      | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot CLI](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-cli)                                                            |
| Editor preview features                                                          | Least restrictive organization | [GitHub Pre-release License Terms](/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-pre-release-license-terms)                                           |
| GitHub Models, one policy per model                                              | Least restrictive organization | [Managing your team's model usage](/en/github-models/github-models-at-scale/manage-models-at-scale)                                         |
| MCP servers in Copilot                                                           | Least restrictive organization | [Connect agents to external tools](/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent/extend-cloud-agent-with-mcp)                          |
| Copilot-generated commit messages                                                | Least restrictive organization | [Responsible use of GitHub Copilot commit message generation](/en/copilot/responsible-use/copilot-commit-message-generation)                |

## Next steps

* [Managing policies and features for GitHub Copilot in your organization](/en/copilot/how-tos/administer/organizations/managing-policies-for-copilot-in-your-organization)
* [Managing policies and features for GitHub Copilot in your enterprise](/en/copilot/how-tos/administer/enterprises/managing-policies-and-features-for-copilot-in-your-enterprise)