Copilot-authored pull requests now included in author searches
Quick Answer
GitHub has updated its search functionality to include pull requests authored by the Copilot cloud agent.
Quick Take
Users can now find these requests by using the author: search filter, such as author:@me, making it easier to track contributions made on their behalf.
Key Points
- Copilot-authored pull requests are now searchable via author filters.
- Users can find their own Copilot contributions using author:@me.
- This update enhances visibility of AI-assisted development activities.
- The change is aimed at improving user experience on GitHub.
📖 Reader Mode
~1 min readSearching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@me on github.com/pulls will return your own pull requests and any pull requests Copilot opened at your direction. With a single query, you can easily view and manage all the pull requests you authored, whether you authored them directly or with Copilot cloud agent.
Currently, this change applies to the github.com UI and GitHub Mobile. On July 16, we will also roll out this change to the REST API and GraphQL API.
What’s changing
- Using
author:[username]orauthor:@mein any pull request search returns human-authored and Copilot-authored pull requests together. - Default pull request queries and views, like the
Created by meview on github.com/pulls, will automatically include Copilot-authored pull requests in the list. - You no longer need to use multiple searches or complex queries to return all of the pull requests a user is responsible for.
- The new global pull requests dashboard attributes
username with Copilotas the author of pull requests, not only Copilot. Similar changes will continue to roll out across the platform over time.
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