Copilot Code Review ignores custom setup steps

[FSchmidt-Altus]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

I cannot get my Copilot Code Review in a PR to use the .github/workflows/copilot-code-review.yml workflow file.

It ignores it and therefore the required steps for the MCP server are not running.

This is based on the Azure DevOps example

name: "Copilot Code Review"

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    paths:
      - .github/workflows/copilot-code-review.yml
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - .github/workflows/copilot-code-review.yml

permissions:
  id-token: write
  contents: read

jobs:
  copilot-setup-steps:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      id-token: write
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Install azd
        uses: Azure/setup-azd@v2
      - name: Azure login
        uses: azure/login@a457da9ea143d694b1b9c7c869ebb04ebe844ef5
        with:
          client-id: ${{ vars.COPILOT_AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
          tenant-id: ${{ vars.COPILOT_AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
          allow-no-subscriptions: true

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[KhyFee]

Copilot Code Review’s custom workflow path is easy to mis-wire relative to ordinary Actions files.

Checklist that unblocks most people:

1. Confirm the file name/path matches exactly what the docs for Copilot code review custom setup expect (often under .github/ / the product-specific location — not every .github/workflows/*.yml is auto-picked).
2. The review agent is not the same runner as PR on: pull_request CI — a normal Actions workflow that never runs for the Copilot review role will look “ignored.”
3. Org / Enterprise policies can force a shared setup or disable repo-level overrides.
4. After each change, open a new review session on a PR; cached review runs sometimes stick to the previous setup.

If the path matches docs and it still skips setup, capture a screenshot of the review panel showing the steps that ran (or none) and escalate with Support — that is the package they need beyond YAML paste.

[sneha8899]

Seeing the same issue here - the copilot-setup-steps.yml is getting picked up when I try to run a Copilot Agent Session on GitHub and I see the correct setup happening. However, when I requested Copilot as a PR Reviewer, the setup steps are not running. I tried using just the copilot-setup-steps.yml file, and I have also tried using the separate copilot-code-review.yml, and that is not working other.

I know this has been set up correctly because when I run the cloud agent I can see the setup steps running - shown here