GitHub Copilot can now approve a pull request, if an admin switches it on

Every Copilot code review now carries an approval assessment in its overview comment, and admins can go further and let Copilot submit an approval that counts toward a repository's required-approvals rule. It is off by default and configurable at enterprise, organization and repository level, including which file paths Copilot may approve. A new push dismisses Copilot's approval exactly as it dismisses a person's.

What it means If your merge rule counts approvals, this is the first setting under which a machine can satisfy it — worth deciding on purpose rather than finding out during a release.