This meta issue tracks scenarios where chat requests are incorrectly blocked as a code suggestion matched publicly available code. Learn more about public code blocking and referencing.

Error message:

Sorry, the response matched public code so it was blocked. Please rephrase your prompt.

In case you experience unexpected blocking due to public code matching:

• Managed public code blocking as Individual Copilot subscriber
• Managing public code policies for all organizations in an enterprise
• Reach out to GitHub Support: https://support.github.com/

GitHub Copilot is iterating and improving the public code blocking heuristics to reduce false-positives.