Session M2-04: Copilot for code review & pull requests¶

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Module: Copilot in Practice Difficulty: Intermediate Prerequisites: Sessions M1-01 to M1-03, M2-01 to M2-03 Duration: 3 hours (1 hr trainer content + 2 hr lab)

Overview¶

Follow one pull request from change brief to final human decision. Inspect a flawed change, run /review and /security-review on its local diff, and compare those findings with Copilot PR review. Then correct the code and resolve a conflict. Record the diff, test output, and reviewer decision.

Learning outcomes¶

Use Copilot to generate PR summaries and review comments
Configure automatic Copilot reviews at repository or organization level
Evaluate Copilot review quality and blind spots
Run general and security review before committing a local patch
Triage unsupported claims and check fixes with regression tests
Resolve merge conflicts manually and check that both branches' intended behavior survives
Add Copilot to a team code-review workflow
Support every blocking comment and accepted fix with a code reference or reproducible check

Session materials¶

Resource	Location
Lab exercises	`lab/`
Lab starter files	`lab/starter/`
Lab solution files	`lab/solution/`

Key topics¶

PR summaries and commit message generation
Copilot code review, manual and automatic
Local /review and /security-review, followed by review of the correction diff
Security-review scope and its limits alongside repository scanning
Review comments with one-click fixes
Manual merge conflict resolution and tests
Quality gates and team adoption