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no models available | 403 Forbidden: unauthorized: not authorized to use this Copilot feature #539

@borcherspm

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@borcherspm

Describe the bug

I cannot seem to get any models to show up, and when i use the default it says no models are available.

I had been following this #173 which seems to of been fixed, as I no longer have that error. It's been many many versions since copilot cli has worked for me.

I'm using an enterprise account through my work, but I do not have access to create an issue through that account, so i used my personal github account.

error from copilot

● Signed in successfully as borcherspm_nyiso! You can now use Copilot.

 ✗ No model available. Check policy enablement under GitHub Settings > Copilot
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and logs

2025-11-12T14:05:54.258Z [INFO] Logged out
2025-11-12T14:06:10.948Z [LOG] Starting remote MCP client for github-mcp-server with url: https://api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com/mcp/readonly
2025-11-12T14:06:10.949Z [LOG] Creating MCP client for github-mcp-server...
2025-11-12T14:06:10.950Z [LOG] Connecting MCP client for github-mcp-server...
2025-11-12T14:06:11.378Z [LOG] MCP client for github-mcp-server connected, took 428ms
2025-11-12T14:06:11.378Z [LOG] Started MCP client for remote server github-mcp-server
2025-11-12T14:06:11.378Z [LOG] GitHub MCP server configured after authentication
2025-11-12T14:06:11.392Z [INFO] Logged in as user: borcherspm_nyiso
2025-11-12T14:06:11.581Z [ERROR] Failed to list models: 403 Forbidden: unauthorized: not authorized to use this Copilot feature

I have confirmed that cli is enabled

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and models are enabled.

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Copilot works fine through vscode and intellij.

Affected version

0.0.354 Commit: 076bd172b

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. copilot
  2. prompt: hi
  3. ✗ No model available. Check policy enablement under GitHub Settings > Copilot

Expected behavior

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Additional context

  • macos

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