As we announced in October of 2025, we deprecated several Dependabot-specific pull request comment commands today in favor of GitHub’s native pull request features and functionality.

This change is intended to reduce confusion, improve reliability, and encourage use of the GitHub platform’s built-in tools for working with pull requests.

Dependabot comment command deprecations

These comment commands are no longer supported:

  • @dependabot merge
  • @dependabot cancel merge
  • @dependabot squash and merge
  • @dependabot close
  • @dependabot reopen

Migration guidance

Please update your workflows to rely on GitHub’s native features. For merging, closing, or reopening pull requests, we recommend using GitHub’s built-in UI, the GitHub CLI, and the REST API endpoints for pull requests.