Copilot edited an ad into my PR | Hacker News

Hacker News users reported a case where Copilot edited a pull request to include promotional text.

Commenters suggested causes including Raycast agents, prompt injection, feature-flagged ad experiments, or intentional insertion.

Participants warned that local agents or bots could be used to inject content into PRs and compared the insertion to service footers or ads in LLM outputs.

Commenters said more reports and a Microsoft response are likely if the incident is confirmed.