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    "kind": "extension",
    "slug": "github-copilot",
    "name": "GitHub Copilot",
    "vendor": "GitHub",
    "description": "GitHub Copilot is GitHub's official AI pair-programmer, distributed as a first-party extension across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Xcode, and the GitHub web UI. Backed by GitHub and Microsoft, it is the most widely-deployed AI coding extension in the world and one of the few that ships with enterprise-grade subscription tiers, audit logs, content-exclusion policies, and IP indemnification for business and enterprise plans.\n\nThe extension reads the file the developer is working in plus a configurable amount of additional repository context to construct prompts, makes outbound network requests to GitHub's Copilot service to retrieve completions and chat answers, and uses an OAuth credential negotiated with the user's GitHub account to authenticate those requests. It does not write to disk autonomously outside of the developer's accept gesture and does not execute shell commands unless the Copilot Agent mode is explicitly enabled by the user.\n\nBecause Copilot is officially published by GitHub, its trust adjustment is the most favorable in the catalog. The remaining residual risk is the credential-plus-network pairing — every keystroke in a Copilot-enabled file is potentially transmitted to GitHub's service, so teams subject to data-residency or confidentiality controls should evaluate Copilot Business or Enterprise rather than the consumer plan.",
    "website": "https://github.com/features/copilot",
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    "documentationUrl": null,
    "license": null,
    "version": null,
    "trustLevel": "official",
    "capabilities": [
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      "credentials:access"
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      "manager": "vsix",
      "packageName": "GitHub.copilot"
    },
    "configFiles": null,
    "category": null,
    "updatedAt": "2026-09-02T18:21:41.256Z",
    "risk": {
      "score": 20,
      "band": "low",
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          "id": "trust-official",
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          "label": "Published by the vendor",
          "contribution": -40
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          "id": "high-risk-capabilities",
          "kind": "capability",
          "label": "1 high-risk capability: credentials:access",
          "contribution": 10
        }
      ],
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    },
    "dangerousCombos": []
  }
}