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GitHub Copilot Can Approve Pull Requests, Then Close Its Own Comments

Two September 2026 GitHub Copilot updates let it approve pull requests and resolve its own review comments, a loop GitHub has yet to publish any accuracy data for.

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AgenTag: AI Pull Request Tells Are in the Prose, Not the Code

AgenTag's 2 August 2026 study found AI-authorship signal in pull requests comes almost entirely from PR descriptions, not code diffs — and rewriting the text defeats it.

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Merge Rate Became AI Coding's Scoreboard, and It Doesn't Agree

Four 2026 studies score coding agents by pull-request merge rate, but rankings flip between papers, suggesting the metric tracks the repo, not the agent.