A study protocol for measuring evidence use, challenge behavior, escalation, and safe stopping in AI-assisted security review.
GitHub announced on July 14, 2026 that security reviews are available in the GitHub Copilot app.
Primary source: GitHub Changelog, July 14, 2026.
The meaningful research question is not whether people click Accept. It is whether they can build an evidence-backed decision when guidance is useful, incomplete, or wrong.
understand change -> inspect evidence -> challenge findings
-> verify uncertainty -> accept, reject, or escalate
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