1. Subscribe your organization to GitHub Copilot
Set up a Copilot Business plan for your organization. See Subscribing to Copilot for your organization.
If your organization is part of an enterprise with a Copilot Enterprise or Copilot Business plan, your enterprise owner can instead enable Copilot for your organization. You can request access from your enterprise owner by going to https://github.com/settings/copilot and requesting access under "Get Copilot from an organization."
2. Set policies
Control which Copilot features are available in your organization. See Managing policies and features for Copilot in your organization.
3. Set up networking (if necessary)
If your organization members connect through an HTTP proxy server or firewall, ensure that key URLs are added to the allowlist for the proxy server or firewall. See Proxy server and firewall settings for Copilot.
You may also need to install custom SSL certificates on your members' machines. See Configuring network settings for GitHub Copilot.
4. Grant access to members
Enable Copilot for some or all members of your organization. You may want to identify teams or members who are most likely to benefit from Copilot and enable Copilot for them first to discover potential blockers and demonstrate early success. See Granting access to Copilot for members of your organization.
If your organization is part of an enterprise on GHE.com, users must perform some additional setup to authenticate to their account from their development environment. See Using GitHub Copilot with an account on GHE.com.
Next steps
- Explore self-service license management options. Many successful rollouts use a self-service model where developers can claim a license without approval. See Setting up a self-serve process for GitHub Copilot licenses.
- Learn how to plan and implement an effective enablement process to drive Copilot adoption. See Driving Copilot adoption in your company.
- Enhance the development experience by enabling and training developers on the latest features. For example, share context with Copilot Spaces, enable Copilot code review on pull requests, and allow developers to experiment with prompts using GitHub Models. For an example showing how these features fit together, see Integrating agentic AI into your enterprise's software development lifecycle.
- Add Copilot coding agent as a team member for asynchronous issue work. See Piloting Copilot coding agent in your organization.