Responding Copilot Reviews

Overview

Structured workflow for responding to GitHub Copilot's automated code review comments on PRs. Key principle: critical evaluation - not all Copilot suggestions are valid.

When to Use

• PR has Copilot review comments to address
• Systematically evaluate automated review feedback
• Respond to multiple review comments on a PR

The Process

Step 1: Fetch Copilot Comments

Retrieve review comments with pagination, filtering to Copilot only:

gh api --paginate repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr}/comments \
  | jq '[.[] | select(.in_reply_to_id == null and .user.login == "Copilot")]'

Filter criteria:

• in_reply_to_id == null - Skip already-replied comments (avoid re-replying)

Required fields from each comment:

• id - Comment ID (needed for Step 5 replies)
• path - File path
• line / original_line - Line number (may be null for outdated)
• diff_hunk - Code context (fallback when line is null)
• body - Comment content

Step 2: Spawn Subagents for Each Comment

For each comment, spawn a subagent in parallel using Task tool:

Task tool (subagent_type: "general-purpose", run_in_background: true)