Copilot as a Reviewer for Azure devops pull request

[durgaprasadkinthada]

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Hi Team,

I want to know if it's possible to add Copilot as a code reviewer to a pull request in Azure Devops. Kindly recommend a workaround if such feature isn't available.
This feature available for Git hub pull requests
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/code-review/using-copilot-code-review?tool=webui

Thanks

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[ShafeerSadik]

We want to use Azure Pipelines or Pull Request policies to enforce quality gates with Github code reviews

[darren-kay]

Considering we pay for Copilot for our devs we get very little value as Azure DevOps users. I would like to see Azure DevOps supported by Copilot rather than just getting a few bits in Visual Studio.

[TRSwami]

Exactly, I too would like this feature!!

[traviswilsonshamrock]

Definitely want this feature! Would be very helpful to integrate to be able to use copilot reviews in Azure!

[jaiconM]

Definitely want this feature too! Would be very helpful to integrate to be able to use copilot reviews in Azure!

[mlwigdahl]

Agreed, this would be a great feature!

[elizabethnayana]

Integrating GitHub Copilot review into Azure would be highly advantageous

[calvin-liu-smartdaily]

This will definitely be my biggest motivation for using Copilot

[zkaram78]

That would be awesome to have Copilot as a reviewer in Azure DevOps, just like in VS Code "Review and Comment" but on larger scale.

[jlw-medivet]

Definitely, especially if we can setup the pipeline to always add CoPilot as a reviewer - quicker feedback if there are improvements to be made.

[pduartee]

+1

[BrazilForever11]

+1

[edwardkuo]

+1

[SorenHartvigJensen]

+1

[PraveenPeri]

+1

[iq-cw]

+1

[roffel]

+2

[0nurulusoy]

You can use Branch Policies under /_settings/repositories?_a=policies that will do it with GitHub API, once someone opens a pr as check this policy would run. The policy is basically a pipeline that will do the entire review and feedback process via GitHub APIs, there is no native support for this in ADO but you can apply a workaround with a policy pipeline.

[blueboxes]

Can you clarify what you mean by using GitHub API to do this? I understand you can set policies to trigger pipelines and this could use a thrid party plugin but unclear on how you can use the GitHub API todo this.

[shourikan]

+1

[0nurulusoy]

Let me clarify, API means GitHub CLI (which calls GitHub APIs under the hood) and what I have in mind is a workaround such as this:

When a PR is opened in Azure DevOps, a Branch Policy triggers a pipeline on ADO, the pipeline automatically:

1. Creates a temporary/mirror repository on GitHub (or uses an existing mirror repo) --> This part can be risky if the auth mechanism and after clean up is not secured.
2. Pushes the PR changes to GitHub
3. Opens a PR on GitHub (or pushes to a branch)
4. Triggers GitHub Copilot code review on that GitHub PR
5. Retrieves Copilot's review comments via GitHub API
6. Posts those comments back to the original Azure DevOps PR using ADO REST APIs --> This one requires a bit text manipulation for a clear view of comment.
7. Cleans up the temporary GitHub resources

[NickRimmer]

Can we technically do code review with copilot - sure, you can even run locally copilot with MCP, from copilot cli, somehow else - many ways. But the question is about integrated to Azure DevOps code reviews powered by copilot.

[0nurulusoy]

Yeah totally agree but on my first comment, I also mention 'there is no native support for this in ADO but you can apply a workaround with a policy pipeline.' so we have the same point.

[MichaCo]

+1

[hemantkapoor]

This is exactly the kind of feature that would have convinced me to push my company toward adopting Azure DevOps. I was already disappointed with the project management side of Azure DevOps — if Microsoft is serious about promoting it, they really need to start NOT considering but implementing requests like this.

[NickRimmer]

That would be great!

[dpozosulzer]

+1

[BartPermentier]

+1000

[blueboxes]

I have been trying out this ADO plugin and thought I would share my notes as it may help others.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EricWellnitz.pria
https://github.com/ewellnitz/pr-inspection-assistant/tree/ecd14eb4751cfadd51d5a5109445c2604af6f32f?tab=readme-ov-file

You can configure and add additional prompts to customise the feedback. I initially set it up as an optional, manually triggered PR validation step for testing.

Functionally, it works, adding comments to lines in the PR and was easy to implement. Its great however.....

1. As it is limited to models in AI foundry, I have found the quality to be so much worse than claude and copilot reviews. Maybe when GPT-5 is added to foundry for general use it may be better.
2. At the moment you cannot reply to comments or tag an AI agent. Though these could be added I would guess.

These aside there is a trust and supportability challange with any third-party open source system. I agree with everyone that a first party support for Co-Pilot Reviews in ADO is a much desired solution.

[ahofman]

+1.
AI Code Review is a killer feature, we need it in Azure Devops!

[Amartyajha]

Try this - https://www.codeant.ai/git-platform/azure-devops-ai-code-review

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=codeantai.codeant-azure-devops-extension

[Chhinna]

I'm the founder of CodeAnt AI, and here's why we built it:

A lot of teams kept asking us for AI code reviews for Azure DevOps - but nothing existed.

So we created CodeAnt AI specifically for Azure DevOps.

It plugs directly into your pull requests and automatically checks for security vulnerabilities and code quality issues across 30+ languages. You can even set custom rules in plain English - no complex setup needed.

You can check it out here: CodeAnt AI on Azure DevOps Marketplace

We also have a 14-day free trial, so feel free to give it a try.

[stlevkov]

+1

[brianpieslak]

+1

[djfoxer]

+1

[MichalTichy]

While we wait for native AI PR reviews in Azure DevOps, we’ve been experimenting with AI-driven code reviews using the OpenAI Codex CLI. The
reviews run in our Azure DevOps CI pipelines and are triggered as a status check on every PR.

This setup keeps all code on our own infrastructure—no additional third-party services are involved beyond OpenAI. The entire review runs on the same self-hosted build agents that already build the code and run the tests.

Another advantage is per-project customization: each project can define its own code-review prompt (alongside an Agents.md file), letting us tailor the review’s focus for every project.

For now, the bot invokes a custom PowerShell script to integrate with Azure DevOps (so we can tightly control what it can do), but we’ll be migrating it to an Azure DevOps MCP server soon.

If anyone is interested drop me a message and we can good deeper into the details.