GitHub moved Copilot Chat's richer pull request experience to general availability this week — side-by-side chat with diffs, inline editing, and context-aware answers without leaving the review view. Previously in public preview, it is now live for all Copilot license holders.
It is a real improvement for reviewing changes inside a single pull request. But it highlights a gap that per-PR AI tooling structurally cannot close: knowing what is open across the rest of your organisation.
The Problem That Lives Outside the PR
Most engineering teams don't work in one repository. They ship across services, libraries, and infrastructure — often with related PRs open in multiple repos simultaneously. A reviewer approving a payments service change without knowing that a dependent auth-service PR is still in draft is reviewing without full context.
This is not a quality-of-feedback problem. It is a visibility problem. No amount of intelligence surfaced inside a PR tells you what is happening across your repositories.
