GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant accessed via integration with your IDE, the command line, or the GitHub website.
GitHub Copilot Pro is available at no cost to individual faculty and staff who are verified members of GitHub Education. GitHub CoPilot Business or CoPilot Enterprise can be acquired through paid licensing agreements for labs, departments, or other campus groups.
As Copilot continues to evolve, new models and features are added to the GitHub Enterprise platform, without any notice to the OSPO as Enterprise Admins. By default, all newly added models and features are disabled when they’re introduced, which means they won’t be available to your Organization until we enable them at the Enterprise level.
If you are the Owner of a GitHub Organization within the JHU Enterprise instance, and you would like access to a Copilot model or feature and get a notice that it’s disabled, please reach out to the OSPO via the form below and we’ll review the request and determine if the model or feature should be enabled.
In general, our approach is to enable models and features at the Enterprise level and then let each Organization Owner decide whether to make them available within their own Organization. Please note that by enabling something, the OSPO isn’t endorsing it or making any judgment about its quality, usefulness, or suitability for your work. Individual users are expected to follow all Johns Hopkins University data safety and handling best practices while using GitHub Enterprise. Data with PHI or PII should not be used with GitHub or GitHub Copilot.
More information about Microsoft and GitHub’s Privacy Policies around Copilot can be found at the following links:
GitHub Copilot data use for model training – March 2026 update
Privacy FAQ for Microsoft Copilot
GitHub General Privacy Statement
A full list of currently enabled Copilot models and features can be found in the OSPO’s GitHub Organization: https://github.com/JH-OSPO/copilot-enterprise-settings. Please note that this is an internal repository, and is available to JHU affiliates only.