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Reduce Copilot review noise by omitting empty severity sections#6957

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Copilot AI commented Mar 17, 2026

Visual review comments were always rendering BLOCKING/WARNING/INFO headings even when no issues existed, cluttering PRs with empty sections.

  • Update shared review template to skip severity sections with zero items and fall back to the existing “No issues found. All pages pass visual review.” snippet when nothing is reported.
  • Preserve existing severity definitions and formatting while reducing blank headings in Copilot-generated reviews.

Example:

### Issues Found

#### BLOCKING
- **path:line** — Description

#### WARNING
- **path:line** — Description

(Only included severities with findings; all omitted when no issues exist.)

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

  • gitlab.com
    • Triggering command: /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx bake --file - --progress rawjson --metadata-file /tmp/compose-build-metadataFile-2137598446.json --allow fs.read=/home/REDACTED/work/docs-v2/docs-v2 (dns block)
  • repos.influxdata.com
    • Triggering command: /usr/lib/apt/methods/https /usr/lib/apt/methods/https (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:


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Co-authored-by: jstirnaman <212227+jstirnaman@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Reduce noise by omitting empty severity sections in issues Reduce Copilot review noise by omitting empty severity sections Mar 17, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from jstirnaman March 17, 2026 14:39
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