GitHub ships enterprise-managed settings for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs

Released 18 August 2026, the change lets enterprise administrators push managed Copilot settings to JetBrains IDEs, bringing JetBrains in line with the enterprise-management controls already available on other Copilot surfaces.

What it means Coding-assistant policy only becomes real when it is pushed from the org rather than set per developer, and JetBrains was the gap in that story.