{"id":99014,"date":"2026-09-23T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-23-copilot-code-review-more-ways-to-request-and-configure-reviews"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:38:46","slug":"copilot-code-review-more-ways-to-request-and-configure-reviews","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-23-copilot-code-review-more-ways-to-request-and-configure-reviews","title":{"rendered":"More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>GitHub Copilot code review now offers additional personal configurations to an expanded set of Copilot plans and an enterprise-level default setting. These improvements are now generally available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dedicated personal settings page for automatic review and your default review effort<\/li>\n<li>An enterprise-wide default review effort setting for organization-owned repositories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"%e2%9a%99%ef%b8%8f-manage-your-personal-review-settings\" id=\"%e2%9a%99%ef%b8%8f-manage-your-personal-review-settings\" ><a class=\"heading-link\" href=\"#%e2%9a%99%ef%b8%8f-manage-your-personal-review-settings\">&#9881;&#65039; Manage your personal review settings<span class=\"heading-hash pl-2 text-italic text-bold\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Previously, personal Copilot code review settings were available only with Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max on the &ldquo;Copilot features&rdquo; page. They covered a single automatic review setting without separate controls for draft pull requests or new pushes.<\/p>\n<p>Under <strong>your profile &rarr; Copilot settings<\/strong>, a dedicated &ldquo;code review&rdquo; page under <strong>Copilot<\/strong> is now available on every Copilot plan, including Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise. From this page you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on automatic reviews from Copilot, which will trigger when you create a pull request, coauthor a pull request, or move a pull request out of draft state.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on automatic review for new pushes and for draft pull requests you create or coauthor.<\/li>\n<li>Set your default review effort, shown today as <strong>Lite<\/strong> or <strong>Balanced<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your default effort applies to reviews you request, including reviews configured to automatically review your pull request. When manually requesting a review from Copilot via the pull request page under &ldquo;Reviewers&rdquo;, you can still select a different review effort before requesting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Screenshot of personal Copilot code review settings page including Automatic review and review effort level settings\" src=\"https:\/\/github.com\/user-attachments\/assets\/4a8323f5-a0e7-4bb2-b6ce-a7ba744cfd85\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"%f0%9f%8f%a2-set-an-enterprise-default-review-effort\" id=\"%f0%9f%8f%a2-set-an-enterprise-default-review-effort\" ><a class=\"heading-link\" href=\"#%f0%9f%8f%a2-set-an-enterprise-default-review-effort\">&#127970; Set an enterprise default review effort<span class=\"heading-hash pl-2 text-italic text-bold\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Authorized enterprise administrators can now set one default review effort (i.e., <strong>Lite<\/strong>, <strong>Balanced<\/strong>, or the GitHub default) for the whole enterprise. 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