Telling GitHub Copilot about the mechanism you want it to use and how to incorporate that into the response

Telling GitHub Copilot from which sources it should base the response on

Telling GitHub Copilot to try multiple times to answer the prompt

Telling GitHub Copilot to iterate several times on the answer before returning it to you

The Gen AI tool is overloaded with too many requests at once.

The Gen AI tool is experiencing downtime and is not fully recovered.

The Gen AI tool is programmed with a focus on creativity over factual accuracy.

The training data might contain biases or inconsistencies.

Based on the payment method in your user profile

N/A – Copilot Individual is a free service for all open source projects

Through an invoice or a credit card

Through an Azure Subscription

If the contents of an excluded file are referenced in code that is not excluded, for example function calls.

When the repository level settings allow overrides by the user.

If the content exclusion was configured at the enterprise level, and is overwritten at the organization level.

When the user prompts with @workspace.

Suggestions matching public code to ' blocked '

Enforce blocking of MIT or GPL licensed code

You need to check code suggestions yourself before accepting

Enable GitHub Copilot license checking

Because GitHub Copilot can cover all possible scenarios in your test cases.

Because GitHub Copilot generates the best code possible for the test scenario.

Because GitHub Copilot ' s generated test cases may not cover all possible scenarios.

Because GitHub Copilot replaces the need for manual testing.

Describing in your prompt what your role is to get a better suggestion

Tell GitHub Copilot in what tone of voice it should respond

Prompt GitHub Copilot to explain what was the role of a suggestion

Giving GitHub Copilot multiple examples of the form of the data you want to use

Information from the IDE like open tabs, cursor location, selected code.

All the code in the current repository and any git submodules.

The open tabs in the IDE and the current folder of the terminal.

All the code visible in the current IDE.

Code suggestions are guaranteed to not expose known security vulnerabilities

You can use keyboard shortcuts to accept the next word in a suggestion

Code suggestions are limited to single-line suggestions

Code suggestions will always compile or run without modifications

Alternative code suggestions can be shown in a new tab