Improvement

August 5, 20251 Minute Read

Copilot coding agent: Improved pull request review experience

You can delegate tasks to GitHub Copilot coding agent that it will work on in the background.

Copilot opens a pull request, pushes its changes, and then requests a review. You can leave feedback on the pull request to ask Copilot to make changes or check out the branch and make changes yourself.

In response to user feedback, we’ve updated Copilot so it will only respond and make changes when explicitly mentioned with @copilot in a comment by someone with write access to the repository.

This means that:

  • You can leave notes and thoughts in pull request comments without Copilot interpreting them as commands.
  • Others can leave feedback on Copilot’s pull request, but you get the final say on what changes are implemented.

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Copilot coding agent: Improved pull request review experience - GitHub Changelog