Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have that ruleset, we’ve turned off the settings we enabled.

When Code Quality became generally available on July 20, 2026, enabling it created a repository ruleset named Code Quality Copilot review for default branch that targeted your default branch. You told us that adding a reviewer should be your choice, so we’ve reversed that.

What we’ve turned off

We’ve disabled the three settings we enabled in that ruleset:

Automatically request Copilot code review, which requested a Copilot review on every pull request.