How do I disable an automatic "Copilot PR Review"

[nathan-tino]

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I set up automatic Copilot code review on a private repo (org/ArizonaDDS) a few weeks ago and now want to turn it off, but I can't find where it's controlled. It runs on every pull request, from every contributor, within seconds of the PR being opened.

What I see running:

• A workflow named "Copilot" at path dynamic/agents/copilot-pull-request-reviewer (workflow id, "Copilot PR Review" is the name I gave it), created 2026-06-09, state active.
• It invokes the runtime workflow dynamic/copilot-swe-agent/copilot ("Copilot cloud agent"), which is what shows up in the Actions runs with steps like Prepare Copilot / Start MCP Servers / Processing Request.
• The PR timeline shows copilot_work_started / copilot_work_finished events, but no review_requested event and no requested reviewer.

What I've already tried / ruled out:

• Personal setting (github.com/settings/copilot → "Automatic Copilot code review") is set to Disabled — and always has been. Reviews still fire on my own PRs, so this isn't per-author.
• Repo Settings → Rules → Rulesets — Empty. (The REST rulesets/branch-rules API returns 403 "Upgrade to GitHub Pro or make this repository public", so I can't inspect rules programmatically.)
• Org settings — I'm a repo collaborator, not an org owner, so I have no access to org-level Copilot policies or org rulesets.
• The Actions UI — opening the "Copilot" / "Copilot PR Review" workflow, the "···" menu does not offer "Disable workflow."
• REST API disable — PUT /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows/{id}/disable returns 422 "Unable to disable this workflow." (dynamic workflows apparently can't be disabled this way).
• No webhooks, no GitHub App, no .github/workflows/* file for it, no copilot-instructions file. It's a GitHub-managed "dynamic" workflow with no file in the repo.

Questions:

1. Where is a dynamic/agents/copilot-pull-request-reviewer agent actually configured, and how do I disable or delete it?
2. If it was created via a ruleset, how can an org owner (not me) find/remove it, given the repo's plan blocks the rulesets API and UI for me as a collaborator?
3. Is there any way to disable a dynamic agent workflow when the Actions "···" menu has no "Disable workflow" option and the REST disable endpoint returns 422?

Repo is private, owned by an organization on the free plan. I'm an outside collaborator with admin on the repo but not an org owner. Repo → Settings → Rules → Rulesets is empty. I disabled the "Copilot code review" setting on the Copilot Cloud Agent settings

Thanks in advance.

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[saket-pathak]

Ans 1:It is a GitHub-managed dynamic workflow created by enabling Copilot Code Review / Copilot Cloud Agent at the organization or repository level. It does not live in .github/workflows and cannot be managed like a normal workflow.

Ans 2:An organization owner should check:

Organization Settings → Copilot
Organization Settings → Code security & analysis
Organization Settings → Policies / Rulesets (if available)
Repository Settings → Copilot (if present)

Ans 3.: Well the simple answer would be NO, dynamic/* workflows are GitHub-managed and cannot be disabled through the Actions UI or the PUT /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/workflows/{id}/disable API. A 422 Unprocessable Entity response is expected for these workflows.
The only way might be to remove or disable the github feature that created it in the first place (for example, an organization- or repository-level Copilot/agent setting).

[nathan-tino]

Thank you. I'm a little confused as to how an org level code review could have been set by me (non-org owner).

I'll have to check in with the org owner to see what he says.

[nathan-tino]

To add more info:

This is what I see on every subsequent push to a pr. It's using my personal copilot account and eating all my usage.

[saket-pathak]

According to the info I think : Since the timeline says "Copilot finished work on behalf of ", it suggests the job is being executed under your Copilot identity/entitlement, even if the trigger itself is coming from a repository- or organization-level configuration. In other words, the workflow may be configured centrally, but it can still consume the Copilot quota of the user who initiated the PR.

Given that you're not an org owner, I'd definitely ask the org owner to check whether Copilot Code Review, Copilot coding agent, or any repository/organization-level Copilot policy has been enabled. If they can't find any such setting, this may be a GitHub-side issue or bug, especially if you were able to enable it without org-owner permissions. In that case, opening a GitHub Support ticket with the repository name and the dynamic/agents/copilot-pull-request-reviewer workflow ID would be the next step.

One other thing that may help narrow it down: do you remember whether you explicitly enabled Copilot Code Review or a Copilot Cloud Agent from the repository UI a few weeks ago? If so, it's possible a repository-level setting created the dynamic workflow, even though it now can't be managed through Actions. If neither you nor the org owner can find any corresponding setting to disable it, that would strengthen the case that this is a GitHub bug or an orphaned GitHub-managed configuration.

Also, if it's consuming your personal Copilot quota, it would be useful to mention that in a GitHub Support ticket, since the expected behavior is that disabling the feature should stop the automatic reviews.

I hope it helps.

[nathan-tino]

A bug sounds right. I felt like I was going crazy making sure everything was disabled and it was still happening.

I don't remember exactly what I created, but I do remember naming it "Copilot PR Review" and setting it to review on pull requests and subsequent pushes. I want to say it was a ruleset but I'm really not sure. If I had to guess, I created a ruleset even though it says rulesets are disabled for this repo because your org is free (or whatever it says) and that ruleset somehow got enabled by a bug and doesn't show up because rulesets are disabled.

Thank you for your responses

[shaiks2004]

First action remove the extension from the ide or web browser which you are using, and refresh the browser

[nathan-tino]

I appreciate your response however the code reviews are coming from github not from my ide or browser.