GitHub Copilot Can Now Approve Pull Requests, Raising Separation-of-Duties Concerns

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GitHub has added the ability for Copilot code review to approve pull requests, not merely comment on them. An approval differs from advisory feedback because it can feed into merge protocols such as branch protection, ownership rules, and deployment gates. The author argues that AI review can be a useful signal for low-risk changes like generated docs, formatting, or test fixtures. Allowing such approvals to count toward required sign-offs, however, turns them into a merge primitive that must be governed. The piece recommends that Copilot approvals not count for sensitive paths, such as deployment workflows and authentication code.

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