Question

A team lead wants developers to use Copilot's automatic pull request summary feature so that every PR description includes an AI-generated overview of the changes. When a developer opens a new PR in a repository, they do not see the option to generate a summary with Copilot. Assuming the developer has an active Copilot license, which condition is MOST likely preventing the feature from being available?

Accepted Answer

The repository belongs to an organization that has not enabled the Copilot pull request summaries policy (Copilot in GitHub.com / Copilot features) for its members.

Answer

The developer has not installed the GitHub Copilot CLI, which is required to render PR summaries in the browser.

Answer

The pull request targets the default branch, and Copilot summaries are only offered on PRs targeting feature branches.

Answer

The developer must first enable Agent Mode in their IDE before PR summaries become active on GitHub.com.