Copilot Chat Now Generally Available on GitHub 🎉

[Akash1134]

We’re excited to announce that Copilot Chat on GitHub is now generally available!

These features are accessible to all users with the following plans:

• Copilot Free: Includes access to Copilot Chat on GitHub.com.
• Copilot Pro and Copilot Business: Include full access to Copilot Chat.

Manage Your Copilot Settings

You can manage these features using the following resources:

• Copilot Settings for Free and Pro Users
• Copilot Organization Policies for Business Users

Updates to Terms

These features are now covered under the standard GitHub Terms:

• GitHub Copilot Pro Terms
• GitHub Copilot Business Terms

Note: They are no longer governed by the GitHub Preview Terms.

Enhanced Copilot Chat Indexing

To help you get the most out of Copilot Chat, we’ve removed the limits on the number of repositories you can index to improve Copilot Chat responses.

Thank You for Your Feedback

Your insights during the public preview were instrumental in improving these features. If you have additional feedback, please share it in the comments below.

We can’t wait to see how these features enhance your development workflows! 🚀

[Eschguy]

How do I disable it?

[dangotbanned]

If you use uBlock, you can add these filters (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-My-filters)

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat

[craiglpeters]

For a pretty complete overview, take a look at this answer.

[detty-down]

Is the linked answer more comprehensive or focused on a specific aspect of the issue?

[y-ack]

how do i disable it?

[y-ack]

[i now see a] settings page for whatever free advertier this is, and the dashboard prompt can be disabled: https://github.com/settings/copilot

(notice, however, that "Copilot in github.com" is still forced "Enabled", for cases of issues beyond the landing page intrusion)

[ghalfacree]

@y-ack I don't have those options showing if I click that link - possibly because I have, very deliberately, never used Copilot.

This is all I have:

Even though that would appear to suggest Copilot isn't enabled, it very much is: I still have the stupid chat box on the homepage.

[y-ack]

i specifically did not opt in to anything either, though i did send a nonsense question to the prompt eventually, so maybe that activated it?? i.e.

• forced prompt on homepage, no setting to disable in default state
• when you do interact with it, automatically activates 'copilot free' which enables the settings menu

very classy, github

[craiglpeters]

For a pretty thorough overview, see this answer.

[michaelachrisco]

It looks like it can see into private repos within private organizations if your personal account has access.

Not a huge deal if your account has access, but if an org wants certain repos to be non-trainable (for ACA/HIPAA/PII etc...) purposes, this could be an issue. Granted you should not be putting that stuff in git to begin with, but its better to opt out rather than opt in for legal purposes in my opinion.

[michaelachrisco]

None of those options tells me how to disable the Copilot prompt at the main dashboards.

Looks like you can disable the dashboard specific feature here.

[Foxboron]

I can't.

[serebit]

I also don't see that option.

[michaelachrisco]

Interesting. I wonder if thats just because one of my orgs auto-added us? I have no idea why you dont have access.

[Akash1134]

Please note that Enterprises have the option to block access to Free accounts, the same way you can block access to Copilot Individual (now Copilot Pro) users. If your company employs security measures like a firewall or proxy server, you should add the following URLs, ports, and protocols to an allowlist to ensure Copilot works as expected:

• api.githubcopilot.com
• api.individual.githubcopilot.com
• copilot-proxy.githubusercontent.com

Once you have these blocked in the firewall, users will not be able to use Copilot Free or Copilot Pro.

Depending on the security policies and editors your organization uses, you may need to allowlist additional domains and URLs. For more information on specific editors, see Further reading.

Every user of the proxy server or firewall also needs to configure their own environment to connect to Copilot. See Configuring network settings for GitHub Copilot.

Hope that helps!

[Foxboron]

I can't stand this Copilot marketing.

It's currently taking up a whole 3 and a half centimeters in the dashboard (I measured this), if I click on anything there it redirects me to the marketing page to Github Copilot Pro!

This is effectively just a fucking ad for an AI product I'm woefully disinterested in. I can't even figure out how to disable this thing!

Make this thing opt-in and stop making the dashboard view worse then it already is.

[Foxboron]

I'm apparently suppose to be able to disable it from github.com/settings/copilot, however I only have a "Try Copilot Free" ad there.

[ruthtillman]

Yeah, there would be a way to disable it if you were paying for it, but there seems to be no way to disable it (yet) from being an option at all.

Imagine launching this in December 2024 and still not realizing that tons of people would immediately want to remove it.

[craiglpeters]

For a pretty complete response, see this answer.

[Foxboron]

@craiglpeters these options are not available to me.

[cipacera]

Are there alternative methods for users who don’t use qutebrowser to hide this banner?

[bytefish]

@Akash1134 Could you please share how to disable it? If there’s no way to disable it, this would also be a useful information.

[craiglpeters]

For a pretty complete response, see this answer.

[mno-ly]

If there is no way to disable the feature, what alternative options can users explore?

[michaelachrisco]

If a user is removed from an organization, will they still see any questions that they asked about a specific repo they previously had access to?Lets say I have a super secret repo that had some proprietary code within. Will the chat history still have that code? How long will the chat history have the code?

[serebit]

Somehow in your public preview nobody ever gave you the feedback that people might not want to see this on their homepage? Nobody suggested an option to disable it? Really?

Or, the more likely case, did management tell you to ignore those who don't want to see this forced AI slop on the homepage of a Git hosting site?

[joakim]

Must be some cargo cult in Microsoft where not wanting AI is blasphemy.

[tootbrute]

if they actually asked us if we wanted AI, it wouldn't exist.

[fossdd]

Please disable it and make it opt-in! This is horrible and just wants me to use a free GitHub alternative like https://codeberg.org instead without any AI ads whatsoever!

[ruthtillman]

Please supply documentation on how to disable it? I have seen things about how to disable if I were actually subscribing myself but not how to be sure I don't see it in either the site or VSCode (updated to add that I looked at VSCode and it looks like I'd have to sign up there, which is a start). Specifically, I don't want it popping up places, just in my settings as a thing I could turn on if I wanted.

[Dekkonot]

Let me disable this or I will leave GitHub. This isn't a negotiation, this is a statement of intent if you continue making your product measurably worse.

[lukaslueg]

There needs to be a way to disable the constant Copilot spam.

[higby]

Thank you for sending me the email notification regarding this change. I can only say that I'm disappointed by this as well as the homepage redesign shoving copilot further down my throat. I'm now actively transferring all my projects over to Codeberg.

[BigGunnLP]

AI sucks. This sucks. Stop it.

[lukaslueg]

One can delete the Copilot spam from homepage by blocking the ##.copilotPreview__container and ##.AppHeader-CopilotChat elements.

[tootbrute]

nobody wanted this.

Microsoft: "Hey, we made silly AI Thing. Interested?"
Me: "No thanks"
Microsoft: "Try GitHub Copilot now! 1 Month free trial!"
Me: "Still no"
Microsoft": "HERE, JUST TAKE IT OKAY?"
sends spam through all my e-mails, post, fax, pigeon post, ..

#Microsoft #GitHub #Copilot

By the way: @Codeberg exists!
from mastodon: https://nattomaki.social/notes/a1ykytrjdxainfyl

Also forgejo exists too. easy to setup guys.
https://forgejo.org/

[sinand99]

lol it is unbelievable that there are dinosaur developers here who refuse AI. Wake up dinosaurs! we are in the AI age. Use it or stay behind.

[chrede88]

By all means use it if it works for you. I think what most people is a bit angry about is the fact that Github pushes this on people without asking.

[tootbrute]

if it's so great, they wouldn't need to shove it down our throat.

[alvvaro]

How can it be disabled?

[SonoSooS]

uBlock Origin filter (optimized for speed), disables as many things as I could find.

||github.com/github-copilot/*$important
||github.githubassets.com/assets/*copilot-chat*.js
github.com##main div.news>:not(feed-container):style(display:none !important)
github.com##header div.AppHeader-CopilotChat:style(display:none !important)

[raster]

This is a great reminder that I should make sure all of my stuff is moved to CodeBerg because I don't want Copilot or any other AI that GitHub is offering.

[ghalfacree]

Adding my request to the above: please provide a way to fully disable Copilot.

[photex]

Please make a single and obvious way to disable Copilot. Better yet, remove Copilot entirely.

[prymitive]

I would also like to know how to get rid of the “Ask copilot” input that’s wasting my phones screen space without any benefit to me.
All the suggestions of prompts I see below it are things like “my open pull requests”, “recent commits in x/z” and other queries that I could have always easily get an answer to in a few clicks, without meting any glaciers or inflating global GPU prices, so it’s very hard to get excited about it.

[alvvaro]

The value proposition is ridiculous. You can find your issues quickly, or find your issues slowly while melting 100 times as many glaciers.

[jesus2099]

@Akash1134

I don't need this huge button.
I keep clicking it by mistake and it shows me useless things.

It hides all the important info on mobile (user and repo names).

Please remove copilot from my account.

The option is forced enabled in the settings and I cannot disable it myself.

[Akash1134]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for sharing your valuable feedback. We wanted to share more information on some of the concerns you have posted.

Removing Copilot from the main homepage

When you go to the main github.com dashboard, you see a Copilot chat bar at the top. If you no longer want to see that select disable “Dashboard entry point” in your Copilot settings

Note that if you have your GitHub Copilot access provided to you via your company as a GitHub Copilot Business or Enterprise subscription then you will not see that setting as no prompt telemetry is collected and the policies around your usage are controlled by the organization administrator.

Blocking GitHub Copilot in your network

Enterprise network administrators have the ability to block GitHub Copilot traffic at the network level. The endpoints used by Copilot are different depending on the subscription level. Therefore it is possible to allow access for users with Business or Enterprise level (paid for by your organization), while blocking access for people using Pro or Free. For more information see Managing GitHub Copilot access to your organization's network

Disabling GitHub Copilot Telemetry Collection

If you are using Copilot Free or Copilot Pro, prompts from your editor and Copilot’s suggestions are shared with GitHub to help improve suggestions, related models and product features. For more information see our privacy statement. If you want to continue using Copilot but disable this telemetry collection, uncheck the box “Allow GitHub to use my code snippets from the code editor for product improvements” in your Copilot settings.

Switching off access to GitHub Copilot

Finally - on GitHub, you will see the Copilot icon in the header as you browse around the site. Copilot is only invoked when you use, i.e. if you use the chat window to ask Copilot questions.

Reading the community feedback, it sounds like some folks would prefer to never see that button. Therefore we have decided to add the ability to turn the Copilot functionality off as a free user on GitHub. When that is rolled out you will be able to go into your Copilot settings and disable Copilot if you do not want to use it. If you change your mind in the future then you will need to go back into your Copilot settings to enable it. Note that paid Copilot Pro users can already cancel their subscriptions from the settings control.

We currently don't have an ETA when that setting will be deployed yet but the team are actively working on it. We will report back when it is available. In the meantime as long as you are not using Copilot via the chat window, it will not be active during your site visit.

Hope that helps, and please keep the feedback coming. ❤️

[Akash1134]

Hi @serebit Are you referring to disable “Dashboard entry point” in your Copilot settings? If so, please note that if you have your GitHub Copilot access provided to you via your company as a GitHub Copilot Business or Enterprise subscription then you will not see that setting as no prompt telemetry is collected and the policies around your usage are controlled by the organization administrator.

[Foxboron]

@Akash1134 the issue is that we can't click on the disabled button without pressing the "Start using Copilot Free" button.

[Akash1134]

@Foxboron The latest we have to share is being discussed in this discussion.

[alvvaro]

@Akash1134 thank you for your response. I can understand (but not agree with) the corporate reason for forcing these features to everyone, but I cannot wrap my head around the fact that you did not even consider the possibility of people wanting to opt-out of it.

[serebit]

Hi @serebit Are you referring to disable “Dashboard entry point” in your Copilot settings? If so, please note that if you have your GitHub Copilot access provided to you via your company as a GitHub Copilot Business or Enterprise subscription then you will not see that setting as no prompt telemetry is collected and the policies around your usage are controlled by the organization administrator.

I don't believe that I have access to Copilot through a business. I have never used Copilot and I intend to never use Copilot. I have not clicked on any promotional Copilot material. Even if this were the case and I were under an administrator that gives me access, the setting to hide the prompt on the homepage should still be available. I believe most would agree.

[jesus2099]

Here is a userstyle solution for Stylus, while waiting for the genuine OFF option:

https://github.com/xt0rted/github-nopilot

[uyriq]

How to access a chat room on github.com at https://github.com/copilot not from browser but from my own app?
I'm wondering what api methods are available to get history and also to send a message to the chat and get a response.
Perhaps you can name react/native projects that implement an example of using this api?