GitHub Now Shows Code Coverage Directly in PRs — No Third-Party App Needed 🎯
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GitHub shipped native code coverage in Pull Requests as a public preview. You get line-level annotations in the diff view, coverage deltas in the conversation tab, and enforcement via repository rulesets — all without installing Codecov, Coveralls, or any external app. No tokens, no OAuth grants, no third-party data access.
This continues a familiar pattern: GitHub absorbing common CI/CD tooling into the platform itself. Dependabot replaced Greenkeeper. Code scanning absorbed LGTM. Secret scanning eliminated dedicated tools. Now coverage display and gating joins the list.
Full details in the GitHub Changelog announcement.