I might be biased, but I think Dependabot is pretty amazing. It helps keep my projects up to date, ensuring I’m always using secure libraries. But because there’re frequently new vulnerabilities, there’re frequently new pull requests from Dependabot.
Sometimes it’s a minor version bump. Sometimes it’s a major version upgrade. Sometimes everything will work just fine. And sometimes… well, every single developer has been caught by a breaking change.
How can we best triage these pull requests? The work isn’t particularly difficult per se, but it certainly is repetitive.
It’s the perfect task to offload to Copilot! With GitHub Copilot app automations, you can hand off that first round of review. Instead of manually inspecting every Dependabot pull request, you can create an automation that reviews open pull requests, groups them by risk, verifies CI status, and delivers a summary before your day begins.
Follow the steps below to build a daily Dependabot triage automation.
