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Copilot CLI: Permissions, Config, Trusted Folders, and Environment Variables/Open the global user config path

Use the default config location.

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Section: Config files and trusted-folder layout

Open the global user config path

bash
bash
~/.copilot/config.json
Explanation

This stores user-level defaults for all repositories unless `COPILOT_HOME` overrides it.

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