Confession: I’ve scrolled past dozens of comments on a PR just to find out why I couldn’t merge it. More times than I’d like to admit. Agents have made this a lot worse. They push commits and leave review comments of their own, and all of it lands in the timeline. PR timelines have gotten dramatically noisier, and the few things you actually need to know get buried. My team is rethinking the foundations of the PR experience around that problem, and today the first piece went into public preview. The new Overview page puts merge readiness and your next step right at the top. A summary catches you up on review activity, and you can filter the conversation down to unresolved threads. It’s opt-in and rolling out through the weekend. This is a much-needed start, and there’s a lot more coming as we modernize PRs for the way software gets built now. If you try it, we’d love to hear what still sends you back to the classic view.

A much-needed refresh of the repo pull requests page landed in public preview yesterday. Very much in line with the rework we did on earlier this year: queries that can do AND/OR and nesting, content assist while you type, a filter sidebar, a compact mode, and check status and unread updates inline. We've all got a deluge of PRs these days, so we're working to make them easier to manage. Try it out and give us feedback!