Tag: code-review

A September 2026 comparison of GitHub Copilot code review, Cursor Bugbot, and anthropics/claude-code-action@v1 running the code-review plugin: what each one reads, what it skips, what it costs per review, and which to put on which repo.

GitHub's September 1, 2026 changelog lets Copilot submit an approving review that satisfies a repository's required-approval rule. It is off by default, scoped by file globs, and dismissed on new commits. Here is what actually changes in your branch protection.

GitHub's August 27 and August 28, 2026 changelogs remove the 20,000 line review cap, start reviewing bot-authored PRs, and flip the default review effort from Lite to Balanced on September 28. All three push AI credit consumption up in the same month.

Agent skills and MCP servers in GitHub Copilot code review went GA on 2026-07-29. Here is where the files live, why skills load from the head branch, and why every MCP tool call in a review is read-only.

Cursor 3.7+ lets you run Bugbot before you push with the /review command. Here is how local review works, how the patch ID dedup stops you paying twice, and the one thing it cannot do yet.