`/new` discards in-memory usage statistics without writing `session.shutdown` to `events.jsonl`
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Description
### Describe the bug
When starting a new session with `/new`, the CLI abandons the current session's in-memory `modelMetrics` without triggering a `session.shutdown` event. All token usage accumulated in the outgoing session is permanently lost — it is never written to `events.jsonl` and never appears in subsequent `/usage` output or `/chronicle` queries.
The only reliable way to persist usage statistics is to exit the CLI entirely with Ctrl+D, which is disruptive when the intent is simply to start a fresh session.
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.67.
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Start the Copilot CLI and do some work (several turns, tool calls, etc.)
2. Run `/usage` — note the token totals shown
3. Run `/new` to start a fresh session
4. In the new session, run `/resume` to return to the previous session
5. Run `/usage`
`/usage` shows zero / only the new segment's usage.
The previous session's token counts are gone.
Inspecting `~/.copilot/session-state//events.jsonl` confirms no `session.shutdown` event was written for the outgoing session.
### Expected behavior
`/usage` after step 5 shows the token totals from before `/new` was called (same as step 2).
### Additional context
Running `/usage` before `/new` shows the numbers correctly — they exist in memory at that point. The data is only lost because `/new` does not flush the outgoing session before switching.
The fix appears straightforward: trigger `session.shutdown` (and flush `modelMetrics` to `events.jsonl`) for the outgoing session when `/new` is invoked, before initialising the new one — the same cleanup path that Ctrl+D takes.
**Environment**
• OS: Linux (dev container)
• CLI version: 1.0.67
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the CLI entry point for `/new` and compare its session-switching path with the Ctrl+D shutdown cleanup. Trace how `session.shutdown` and `modelMetrics` are written to `events.jsonl`; done means restarting with `/new`, resuming the prior session, and seeing the earlier totals in `/usage` and `/chronicle`.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100