Copilot locks files
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- Shell
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Description
### Describe the bug
Copilot often locks files after handling a prompt, so subsequent prompts return errors like "Access denied.."
It leads to bad workflow by forcing me to exit copilot session and then rerun it again.
### Affected version
1.0.40
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
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### Expected behavior
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### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the file-locking failure described for version 1.0.40, since no reproduction steps or code locations are provided. Trace how Copilot handles files after a prompt and verify that subsequent prompts complete without access-denied errors or restarting the session.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100