Uninstalling the extension
Uninstalling removes the ADO Pilot UI from Azure DevOps but does not cancel your subscription or stop reviews. Cancel from the dashboard to fully stop reviews.
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Uninstalling the ADO Pilot Marketplace extension removes the UI it contributes — the pull request action menu entry and the project administration hub — but it does not cancel your subscription, remove the service-hook subscriptions in your Azure DevOps organization, or stop reviews from firing. To fully stop reviews, cancel your subscription from the adopilot.dev dashboard.
What uninstalling does
When an organization administrator uninstalls the ADO Pilot extension from your Azure DevOps organization:
- The pull request action menu entry stops appearing in pull requests across the organization.
- The "ADO Pilot" item disappears from each project's administration sidebar.
- The extension's lifecycle handler logs an uninstall event for telemetry and exits. The handler is best-effort and does not block the uninstall.
That is the full scope of the uninstall. Specifically, uninstalling does not:
- Cancel your subscription at adopilot.dev.
- Remove or disable the service-hook subscriptions the backend provisioned in your Azure DevOps organization.
- Revoke the personal access token (PAT) the backend uses to call your organization.
- Delete review history, findings, or usage records on the ADO Pilot side.
- Stop reviews from running on new pull requests.
Reviews continue to be posted as inline comments and status checks on every pull request. The only thing that goes away is the in-product UI on top of those reviews.
How to fully stop reviews
To stop reviews and stop being billed, cancel your subscription before — or instead of — uninstalling the extension:
- Open the adopilot.dev dashboard.
- Go to Billing.
- Click Cancel subscription and confirm.
Cancelling the subscription tells the backend to deprovision the service-hook subscriptions in your Azure DevOps organization and to stop processing pull request events. Reviews stop on the cancellation effective date. See Changing your plan for the exact billing semantics.
Once the subscription is cancelled, you can uninstall the Marketplace extension from Azure DevOps if you also want the UI removed.
How to uninstall the extension
If you have already cancelled your subscription, or you are removing the UI for another reason and accept that reviews will keep running:
- In Azure DevOps, click the gear icon in the top-right and choose Organization settings.
- In the sidebar, choose Extensions.
- On the Installed tab, find ADO Pilot - AI PR Review.
- Click the row to open the extension detail page.
- Click Uninstall and confirm.
Azure DevOps removes the extension's contributions from the organization within a few seconds. Open pull request pages may need a refresh to drop the action menu entry.
You need Azure DevOps administrator permissions on the organization (typically Project Collection Administrators) to uninstall an extension. The Project Administrator role that grants access to the settings hub is not sufficient for uninstall.
What persists after uninstall
The following stay in place after uninstall and require separate action to remove:
| Item | Where it lives | How to remove |
|---|---|---|
| Service-hook subscriptions | Your Azure DevOps organization | Cancel your subscription at the dashboard, which triggers backend deprovisioning. |
| Personal access token (PAT) | Your Azure DevOps user account | Revoke from Azure DevOps User settings → Personal access tokens if you no longer want the backend to be able to call your organization. |
| Subscription billing | adopilot.dev | Cancel from the dashboard Billing page. |
| Review history and findings | ADO Pilot backend | Retained for the period documented in How we handle your data. |
Re-installing later
If you uninstall the extension and later want the UI back, search the Azure DevOps Marketplace for ADO Pilot and re-install using the steps in Installing and sharing the extension. Re-installing does not require any re-authentication if your subscription is still active — the backend's service-hook subscriptions are independent of the extension, so reviews will already have been running through the entire uninstall window. The hub will show Active and the current subscription counts as soon as it loads.
If you cancelled your subscription before uninstalling, re-installing the extension alone will not bring reviews back. Re-run the onboarding wizard at adopilot.dev to provision new subscriptions.
If something looks wrong after uninstall
- Reviews stopped after uninstall and you didn't expect that — your subscription was probably cancelled at the same time, or the PAT used by the backend has expired. Check the adopilot.dev dashboard Health page.
- The action menu entry is still showing after uninstall — refresh the pull request page. Azure DevOps caches contributions per page load.
- Reviews are still running and you wanted them to stop — uninstall alone will not stop reviews. Cancel your subscription at the dashboard.