Adding Copilot coding agent to your organization

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners

Copilot coding agent is available with the Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise plans in repositories where it has not been disabled. Copilot coding agent is not available in repositories owned by managed user accounts.
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Note

Copilot coding agent is in public preview and subject to change. During the preview, use of the feature is subject to License Terms.

Note

Copilot policies are also managed at the enterprise level. If your organization is part of an enterprise, and explicit settings have been selected at the enterprise level, you cannot override those settings at the organization level. For more information on managing policies at the enterprise level, see Managing policies and features for Copilot in your enterprise.

Copilot coding agent and use of third-party MCP servers are disabled by default for organization members.

Organizations with Copilot Enterprise can enable these features for members on the Copilot policies page for their organization. See Enabling Copilot features in your organization.

  • For the "Copilot coding agent" policy, select "Enabled".
  • For the "MCP servers on .com" policy, select "Enabled".

By default, Copilot coding agent is available in all repositories for users who have access to the agent, but you can block it from being used in some or all repositories owned by your organization.

  1. In the upper-right corner of , select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the sidebar, under "Code, planning, and automation", click Copilot, and then click Copilot agent.
  4. Use the "Repository access" control to define which repositories allow Copilot coding agent.
  5. If you choose "Selected repositories", in the "Select repositories" dialog, select the repositories that allow Copilot coding agent, then click Select.

Once Copilot coding agent is enabled for a repository, any user with access to Copilot coding agent and write permission for the repository can delegate work to Copilot.