Azure DevOps: platformAutomerge does not support bypassing branch policies

[perpective2410]

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Description

On the Azure DevOps platform, platformAutomerge only calls the plain "Set auto-complete" API - it never sends Azure DevOps' separate bypass-policy flag. This means a PR configured with automerge: true + platformAutomerge: true still waits for required branch policies (e.g. minimum reviewers, required builds) to genuinely pass before completing, rather than actually bypassing them.

An earlier PR to add this (#33626) was closed unmerged.

Impact

Without native support, self-hosted users who want Renovate to bypass branch policies for trusted, low-risk updates (e.g. digest-only base image pins) have to build their own out-of-band automation that calls az repos pr update --bypass-policy true directly against the Azure DevOps REST API for PRs Renovate has already flagged via autoCompleteSetBy. This duplicates logic that platformAutomerge should be able to handle on its own, and has to be kept in sync with packageRules automerge eligibility separately.

Ask

Could this be reconsidered, either by reviving #33626 or via a new platformAutomerge-scoped option (e.g. platformAutomergeBypassPolicy or similar) that opts in to sending the bypass-policy flag on Azure DevOps? Happy to provide more context on the workaround we're currently running if useful.

[RahulGautamSingh]

The PR #33626 was closed due to inactivity, you can create a new PR. It's welcome