GitHub Copilot code review in GitHub.com (public preview)

[Akash1134]

Say hello 👋 to GitHub Copilot Code Review—your new AI-powered buddy that gives you quick, actionable feedback right in your favorite coding environments!

Imagine breezing through your code, knowing you have a smart assistant ready to provide insights at a moment's notice. With the GitHub Copilot Chat extension (v0.22 or later), you can now request fast, AI-driven code reviews directly in Visual Studio Code and on GitHub.com.

That's not it! Copilot can also review your code in Visual Studio Code before you push; see the changelog for more details.

Why You’ll Love Copilot Code Review:

• ✨ Quick Feedback, No Waiting ⚡ : Just highlight your code in VS Code and ask for an initial review. Copilot will give you instant suggestions that you can apply with just one click—no more endless waiting for peer reviews!
• ✨ Two Review Types:
  • Review Selection: Want a quick glance? Select your code in VS Code, run the GitHub Copilot: Review and Comment command, and let Copilot do the magic. You’ll get comments directly in your editor, making it easier to see what’s working and what could be improved.
  • Review Changes: For those deeper dives, request a review on your pull request on GitHub.com or in the “Source Control” tab in VS Code.

You are one step away from the magic 🪄 – Just join our waitlist to access this feature!

To explore all the cool features of Copilot Code Review, check out the documentation here.

[bigint]

How can I get access for this feature? Already applied to waitlist 🤞🏼

Our repo is huge and need this for sure 🙇🏼

https://github.com/heyxyz/hey

[timrogers]

@nul800sebastiaan Done! ✅

[nul800sebastiaan]

Thanks Tim! I shall be giving it a good workout in the next few weeks, is this thread where you want feedback or where is the best place?

[timrogers]

Here is great! ❤️ Thanks.

[frkhol]

Hey @timrogers ! Any chance we could get early access too (on waitlist)? Our team would love to try this out.. 😊🙏

[timrogers]

@frkhol Sure! Would you be able to email me at the @github.com email address on my profile? I'd just like to get connected with one of your company administrators before we turn it on.

[alazreq]

Does help find the error in line 5?

[fnesveda]

Hey! When you sign up for the waitlist and get approved, is Copilot Code review available for your whole organization, or just for your individual account? And if only the individual account, is it possible to sign up the whole organization to the waitlist?

[timrogers]

If you're a Copilot Individual subscriber (just paying for yourself), Copilot code review would just become available to you as an individual. If you're a Copilot Business or Enterprise user, then you'll nominate an organization, and we'll onboard that whole organization.

[malytskyybabtec]

this is very cool and could be a serious performance booster within our enterprise subscription on many levels! My am really excited about the quality of reviews in my tests 👍 These things we need to roll out deep integration into our processes:

• please add support for Visual Studio plugin
• please add integration into AzureDevOps services

Thank you!

[williamjamir]

Regarding VS Code:

• This is the most essential feature for me. I want to receive comments and suggestions locally before I open a pull request.
• Within VS code, I tried using the "Copilot Code Review" button on the source control tab, but it usually gives "no suggestions to give" for the 17 files I've changed.
• If I execute multiple times (to overcome the previous issue), I can get comments, but they are always on the latest file I've opened (in the staged files).
• However, if I go into some of these files, select the whole code, and click "Review using Copilot," I receive at least five comments.

As a suggestion and future improvements for the VS Code:

• Please add a function to analyze code that has already been committed or pushed, allowing it to "analyze everything between HEAD and some branch."

Regarding the UI:

• I still need to assign the Copilot user to my pull request, but I likely won't, as I anticipate too much unnecessary noise.
• My excitation is about noise comments and having to delete them manually in case they are irrelevant.

Suggestion for UI:

• It would be perfect if the "Chat with Copilot" had some "shortcuts" or "default prompts" for code review, code simplification, and so on available straight as comments on the chat rather than comments on the PR directly.

[aspearman]

It looks like it doesn’t support reviewing my *.swift files, so I can’t use it for my indie iOS app PRs. Is that right?

[beingminimal]

@Akash1134 We follow trunk based development and so we don't create PRs. So we would like to have code review suggestions based on staged commit before we push code to repo.
And also code review comments in respect of the whole repo code in the main branch also.
Is this already supported?

[maciejbrzezinski]

Is there a timeframe for when Dart and PHP will be supported?

[rymnc]

wen Rust?