Overview
- GitHub removed Copilot assistant prompts from pull request comment areas and apologized, saying it has no plan to run ads in PRs.
- The company attributes the behavior to a code‑logic bug in a new feature that lets Copilot edit or create pull requests, which are code change proposals.
- Prompts that were meant only for Copilot‑created PRs appeared in human‑written PRs after developers invoked Copilot, causing the ad‑like messages to post in the main comments.
- Community scans found the same Raycast recommendation in more than 11,000 GitHub PRs and reports noted similar appearances on GitLab, though GitHub has not issued an official count.
- Raycast denied any advertising arrangement and said it did not authorize the references, underscoring how AI edits inside PRs can erode trust and clutter project history without clear disclosure.