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GitHub Copilot makes assisted permissions generally available across CLI, app and VS Code — Source: Letterbox for GitHub’s office in Spuistraat, Amsterdam, November 9, 2023. Photo: Rrustema, via Wikimedia Commons; CC0 1.0 Universal. Archive company context.Source image

GitHub Copilot makes assisted permissions generally available across CLI, app and VS Code

By OpenTools Team

Copilot can use a model to approve eligible commands, paths and URLs. Enterprise policy, existing permissions and interactive versus unattended handling determine what happens next.

A model reviews eligible permission requests

GitHub made assisted permissions generally available on October 26 in Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app and Visual Studio Code. When an eligible request needs permission to run a command, access a filesystem path or open a URL, a language model assesses whether to approve it. Requests it judges safe can proceed automatically.

In a standard interactive session, requests that still need a person’s approval are put to the user. GitHub’s detailed documentation specifies a different result for autopilot and non‑interactive runs: requests that still require approval are denied, with the review explanation returned to Copilot so it can try another approach. Assisted permissions therefore changes how some requests are reviewed; it does not guarantee that unattended work can complete.

Select the mode for the client, then check enterprise policy

The launch notice gives a separate entry point for each client. In Copilot CLI, run /permissions and select assisted. In the Copilot app, open the mode picker, choose Tool permissions, then Assisted. In VS Code, open the permissions picker and select Assisted permissions.

Enterprise administrators can block Allow All while keeping Assisted available, or disable Assisted separately. They can also choose a default permission mode for new sessions. Developers can select another mode when policy permits it; if the selected default is unavailable or prohibited, the session starts with manual approval. The documentation also distinguishes current‑session choices from defaults, so a mode selected in one session should not be assumed to change every existing session.

Existing rules and the model’s limits still matter

GitHub’s permission‑handling documentation says existing rules and human approvals are evaluated before model review. Existing deny rules and enterprise restrictions still apply. A request already allowed by the user’s permissions can run without either another prompt or a model review. In Copilot CLI, eligible enterprise ask rules for commands, file reads, file writes and URLs can be satisfied by model approval, so an ask rule does not always produce a human prompt.

Requests to bypass local sandboxing and other tool calls that enterprise rules require a person to approve stay under the session’s normal permission handling. If model review is unavailable or cannot evaluate a request, normal session handling also applies. GitHub explicitly warns that the model can make mistakes and approve dangerous or unintended actions, and that the feature is not a substitute for sandboxing or access restrictions. These are documented limits of the approval mechanism; OpenTools has not independently tested its safety decisions.

A letterbox for GitHub’s office in Spuistraat, Amsterdam, photographed November 9, 2023. Archive company context; not the Copilot permissions interface or a depiction of the October 2026 launch. Photo: Rrustema, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 Universal. Cropped to frame the letterbox and resized for display.

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