Copilot CLI: No model available. Check policy enablement under GitHub Settings...

What it means

Copilot CLI could not get any usable model for your account. Maintainers said the message "can appear for a variety of reasons that basically boil down to problems retrieving models."

Causes

• Copilot Individual users: per maintainer andyfeller, "Copilot Individual users ... had unconfigured or disabled models excluded from the list."
• Copilot Business and Enterprise users: "still governed by policies set by organization and enterprise owners". Several reporters in the thread found Copilot CLI turned off in their organization's Copilot policy.
• In #552 the maintainer said that "the controls and policies associated with you were cached with GitHub Copilot CLI being unconfigured / disabled", and later that there is "a more complex problem on the GitHub.com side".
• Copilot Individual plans only get a subset of supported models (maintainer comment linking the supported-models-per-plan docs).

How to fix it

1. 1
   Fix 1.

   Upgrade to v0.0.372 or later. That release "introduces support for Copilot Individual users to see and enable models within the copilot" (andyfeller, #400).

2. 2
   Fix 2.

   Business/Enterprise: an org or enterprise owner must enable the Copilot CLI policy and the models you need. Check which models and features are enabled for you in your Copilot settings.

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   https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

3. 3
   Fix 3.

   If it still happens on the latest version, maintainers asked for logs and a new issue:

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   copilot --log-level all --log-dir logs

4. 4
   Fix 4.

   v1.0.10 changelog: "Model picker reorganizes models into Available, Blocked/Disabled, and Upgrade tabs based on user plan and policy".