{
  "id": 16129270,
  "title": "AI code review on GitHub: what the platform decides for you",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/ai-code-review-on-github-what-the-platform-decides-for-you",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-23T00:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/tessainsley/ai-code-review-on-github-what-the-platform-decides-for-you-390f"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The article discusses the AI code review feature on GitHub, specifically focusing on how the decision-making process behind the reviewer operates. There are two main ways an AI reviewer can be integrated with GitHub: through a hosted app installed on the repository or by setting up a workflow within your own repository. The hosted app receives a scoped token from GitHub and runs on the vendor's infrastructure, while the self-hosted workflow operates within your pipeline and posts comments or summaries using the permissions configured by the user. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms that determine the behavior of the AI reviewer, as failure in one setup does not necessarily result in an error but may lead to unnoticed context being omitted from the review.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}