Copilot does not start working on comments

[AbhiramDwivedi]

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I have been assigning issues to github copilot coding agent and it picks them up, completes them. The PRs often need comments - additional work that needs to be done. When I add comments, sometimes it picks up those comments, but more often than not, they just sit idle. GH Copilot does not mark them with its eyes and never picks them up. FWIW, its on this public repo I have https://github.com/AbhiramDwivedi/docrag

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[t36campbell]

Found this post because I was having a similar issue. I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere but adding a mention (@copilot) to the comment will get copilot's attention

[AbhiramDwivedi]

That is absolutely correct. I dont know if tagging @ copilot was enabled before or after I raised the issue, but that has been reliable. I imagine it was added after, and now the only/ clear way is to always tag copilot. It would never pick without tagging. Although, I havent found a way to programmatically tag copilot. I have automated reviews where I need attention from copilot - but that is a separate issue.