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Managed permissions cover shell commands, file reads and edits, and network domains. This gives you fine-grained guardrails for sensitive operations without disabling agent workflows. Managed restrictions can’t be weakened by user or workspace settings, auto-approval, or previously saved approvals. You can also provide specialized policies for different enterprise teams.<\/p>\n

These controls are generally available in the GitHub Copilot app, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Visual Studio Code sessions that use Agent Host.<\/p>\n

Learn more about enterprise managed permissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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