Dependabot alerts assignees

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Value Prop

Dependabot alert assignees bring clear ownership and accountability directly to each Dependabot alert, making it easy for security and engineering teams to route work to the right person and track progress at alert-level granularity. By aligning Dependabot with the existing assignee patterns customers already use for code scanning and secret scanning—and supporting autofix workflows, including Copilot coding agent opening draft PRs—teams can standardize how they triage and remediate vulnerabilities across all GitHub security signals.

Expected Outcome

With alert assignees in place, customers can expect faster and more consistent vulnerability remediation because every alert has an explicit owner, clearer prioritization, and fewer “orphaned” findings. Large orgs should see reduced alert fatigue, improved coordination between AppSec and development teams, and better ability to drive “get clean / stay clean” programs by measuring and managing remediation at scale across repositories and portfolios.

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🚢 This has shipped: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-03-dependabot-alert-assignees-are-now-generally-available.

Leaving open to track for GHES release.