GitHub Reversed Auto-Assigning Copilot as a PR Reviewer After User Pushback — 18 Days After GA
On August 7 GitHub disabled the ruleset that Code Quality had been creating to automatically request Copilot reviews, turning off three settings: automatically request Copilot code review, review new pushes, and review draft pull requests. The stated reason is blunt — 'You told us that adding a reviewer should be your choice, so we've reversed that.' Code Quality only went generally available on July 20, so the default lasted under three weeks; teams that want automatic reviews must now add or edit a ruleset themselves at repo or org level, and the old disabled ruleset can be deleted. It applies to GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Team, and it is a useful data point on how much unsolicited agent participation developers will tolerate by default.
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