GitHub Copilot's enterprise managed-settings.json is now GA

GA in a sentence GitHub moved its enterprise managed-settings.json to general availability on July 1, giving GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins a single JSON file that overrides Copilot behaviour in VS Code and Copilot CLI for anyone holding a Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise seat issued from the enterprise or one of its organizations. The changelog frames it as a place to define AI standards for the tenant. In practice it is a supported home for Copilot policy that shipped one setting at a time in beta up to this point. The five keys the file accepts Five keys are documented at GA: extraKnownMarketplaces , enabledPlugins , strictKnownMarketplaces , disableBypassPermissionsMode , and model . Together they configure trust for extra plugin marketplaces, the enabled-plugins list, strict enforcement of the known-good marketplace list, whether Copilot CLI and the VS Code extension can run in bypass-permission mode, and which model a user is allowed to pick. Value shapes are not enumerated in the changelog itself; the docs page is the reference for the schema. How the file reaches a client The file lives at copilot/managed-settings.json inside the .github-private repository of the organization the enterprise nominates for the role. There is a backward-compatible path at .github/copilot/settings.json for tenants already using the older layout. Copilot clients fetch the file from the server on every authentication, hold it in memory, and refresh it hourly, per the changelog. That server-side file takes precedence over the file-based config a user may have on their own machine. Setup runs through the AI Controls tab in enterprise settings, or the equivalent API endpoint, where an admin picks the hosting organization. Anyone who followed the June rollouts of disableBypassPermissionsMode and strictKnownMarketplaces will recognise the same file and the same repo. GA is what turns the plumbing into a supported product surface. Where it will trip you Two operational details are