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Client telemetry user attribution and configurable capture

Publisher description: Enterprise administrators can now use telemetry in managed settings to attribute GitHub Copilot activity to a user without collecting their prompts, responses, or tool content.

github | Oct 12, 2026 | Allison

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Enterprise administrators can now use telemetry in managed settings to attribute GitHub Copilot activity to a user without collecting their prompts, responses, or tool content. Fine-grained capture controls are available in Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and VS Code sessions using Agent Host. prompts: User, system, and developer prompts and supported input context. responses: Assistant responses and supported reasoning content. toolArguments: Raw tool arguments, commands, tool schemas, and identifiers for tools, MCP servers, plugins, and hooks. toolOutput: Tool results and execution-error details. policyDetail: Raw policy details such as sandbox filesystem paths.

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