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Local MCP URLs that are supposed to be not covered by MCP approval policy are banned anyway #2814

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Describe the bug

My company uses GH Copilot Enterprise.

Generally MCP servers need to be approved, but several local URLs are supposed to be allowed to be run without any approval:

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GH Copilot CLI failed to add the MCP server on http://127.0.0.1:54000/mcp:

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Affected version

1.0.31

Steps to reproduce the behavior

see above

Expected behavior

see above

Additional context

OS: Linux

Questions

Where in the settings is this list of URLs set?
(I am not an enterprise admin, I need to tell them)

Does this policy exemption really work? Did anybody test it at the GitHub side?

Why might this not be working?

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    area:enterpriseGitHub Enterprise (GHE/GHES) support, org policies, and enterprise settingsarea:mcpMCP server configuration, discovery, connectivity, OAuth, policy, and registry

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