GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer

GitHub has reversed its Code Quality feature's automatic addition of Copilot as a pull request reviewer, disabling the ruleset settings it previously enabled. The change, effective for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team, means enabling Code Quality no longer creates a ruleset that requests Copilot reviews, and existing rulesets have had those settings turned off unless users edited them. Users can re-enable automatic Copilot code review manually via rulesets, and Copilot code review continues to bill to their Copilot plan.

GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have that ruleset, we’ve turned off the settings we enabled. When Code Quality became generally available on July 20, 2026, enabling it created a repository ruleset named Code Quality Copilot review for default branch that targeted your default branch. You told us that adding a reviewer should be your choice, so we’ve reversed that. What we’ve turned off what-weve-turned-off We’ve disabled the three settings we enabled in that ruleset: Automatically request Copilot code review , which requested a Copilot review on every pull request. Review new pushes , which requested another review each time you pushed to a pull request. Review draft pull requests , which requested a review before you marked a pull request ready. We only change the ruleset where it still matches what we created. If you’ve edited it, we leave it as you set it, and we never touch a ruleset you wrote yourself. The ruleset stays in your repository with these settings off, so you can delete it whenever you want. How to keep automatic Copilot code review how-to-keep-automatic-copilot-code-review Copilot code review itself hasn’t changed, and you can turn it back on at any time. Add or edit a ruleset that enables Automatically request Copilot code review for the branches you choose, at either the repository or organization level. For the steps, see configuring automatic code review by Copilot https://docs.github.com/copilot/how-tos/copilot-on-github/set-up-copilot/configure-automatic-review configuring-automatic-code-review-for-a-single-repository . Copilot code review continues to bill to your Copilot plan. This change applies to Code Quality on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Team.