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Comment by khvirabyan | Hacker News Reader

Just thinking, could it be that your coworker used Raycast to spin up a codex to review and fix the typo on the PR? And that comment was added by Raycast?

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Yes. The same message in GitLab: https://gitlab.tudelft.nl/thomasvermeule/GeneralAviationAirc...

that's an imported PR, presumably from github. Note how the copilot comments come from the same user as the author, with an `imported` tag.

I stand corrected. GitHub team confirmed it's their Copilot ad.

I doubt it. I noticed a few of these comments too on our PR's. We did ask copilot for a review ton GitHub (we just add copilot as a reviewer) but not through Raycast.

Oof. Why can’t it just do its one job? My interest level in trying these agents has gone from lukewarm to zero.

It is doing its one job.

Seems like it: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agent...

Yes, it seems very unlikely this is Copilot rather than Raycast, short of some very unexpected weirdness. I cling to that hope, anyway.

Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…

If you click the Raycast link in one of these PRs it links to: https://gh.io/cca-raycast-docs

So I think they’re injecting this as a tip on using Copilot, that just happens to be their integration with Raycast.

I have no idea what their actual partnership with Raycast looks like, maybe this is part of what they offered them? But it’s not a traditional link to another product ad like it appears to be from Raycast being a link.

It's time to make some money with Copilot and one way to do that is with partnerships.

GitHub's docs and blog make use of and feature Raycast, and I'm willing to bet that's the result of a partnership, and not because someone writing docs and blog posts happens to think Raycast is great and keeps bringing it up.

Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry!

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...

The same way Google advertisers other organisations products.

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