👉 Copilot code review depth is now up to you. Balanced depth is now generally a

GitHub now lets users choose how thorough a Copilot code review is on each pull request, the proposed code change a team reviews before merging. Its announcement says Balanced depth is generally available alongside Lite, pitching Balanced for "deeper analysis and more thorough reviews" and Lite for straightforward changes. In the attached demo video, the presenter suggests light reviews for documentation updates and small fixes, and balanced reviews for complex logic and changes that span several services.

The level can be set in three places, and the narrower choice wins. On a single pull request, a user picks a level in the reviewers area, and that choice applies only to that review without changing any default. A repository can set its own default in its Copilot code review settings, and organization admins can set a default for every repository that has not chosen one. After a review, labels in the pull request's timeline and in Copilot's overview comment record which depth was used, so teams can track it across repositories. The video says both levels are available on the Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.

Neither the post nor the video explains what Balanced does differently under the hood, or measures whether it finds more problems, takes longer or costs more. The video detail comes from an automatic speech transcript, and its visuals were not analyzed.