GitHub Copilot Product Terms

These terms set the rules for using GitHub Copilot, including what content you can and cannot submit as prompts and what kinds of suggestions you may not generate. You keep ownership of your code, but you are fully responsible for anything you build with or include from Copilot's suggestions — GitHub takes no responsibility for that. These terms were deprecated on 5 March 2026, so if your subscription is new or renewed on or after that date, different terms apply to you.

These GitHub Copilot Product Terms establish the conditions under which users may access and use GitHub Copilot, including three distinct compliance frameworks governing acceptable use: the Acceptable Use Policies, the AI Code of Conduct, and the Required Mitigations. The terms allocate responsibility and ownership clearly: users retain both ownership of their Code and full responsibility for it, including any Suggestions incorporated into or used to develop that Code, while GitHub asserts no ownership over Suggestions. The document's scope is expressly limited: it does not apply to users who purchase GitHub under a Microsoft agreement, it requires agreement to the General Terms and a Data Protection Agreement unless superseding agreements are already in place, and it was deprecated effective 5 March 2026 such that new subscriptions and renewals on or after that date are not governed by this document. Prompts submitted through tools operating outside the code editor, such as the CLI, are retained by GitHub Copilot to provide the service.

As a user of GitHub Copilot under these terms, you own your code but bear complete responsibility for it, including any AI-generated suggestions you incorporate or reference. You are prohibited from submitting unlawful prompts or using Copilot to generate suggestions whose use you know or reasonably should know would be unlawful or infringe on others' rights. If you use GitHub Copilot tools outside the code editor — such as the command-line tool — your prompts are retained by GitHub Copilot to provide the service, which is a distinct data handling practice from in-editor use. If your GitHub subscription was purchased under a Microsoft agreement, these terms do not govern your use, and you should consult your Microsoft Product Terms instead.