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Cancelled user input is still delivered to the agent and processed as a valid turn (autopilot mode)

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Descripción

Describe the bug

Summary

When I cancel a queued input before it is sent, the cancelled text is not discarded. It reappears later — bundled into a subsequent message block, carrying its original (older) timestamp — and the agent processes it as a normal user turn, with no indication it was ever cancelled. This happened in autopilot mode, in a session that also showed unstable tool availability (see "Possibly related" below).

Possibly related (same session, may share a root cause in turn/tool scheduling):

  • The session was running in autopilot mode the whole time.
  • The task_complete tool was repeatedly present and then absent across turns. The autopilot reminder text ("You have not yet marked the task as complete using the task_complete tool...") kept firing on turns where task_complete was NOT actually in the available tool list, so the agent could not comply and got stuck re-confirming that it was idle.
  • Both symptoms look like state being assembled from stale/mismatched snapshots between turns (a stale queued input on one side, a stale tool list / reminder on the other), so they may be the same underlying issue.

Impact:

  • The agent wastes a turn acting on something I explicitly cancelled.
  • Cancel doesn't actually cancel, which is confusing and erodes trust.
  • Potentially risky in autopilot mode: autopilot acts without waiting for confirmation, so a cancelled input containing a destructive command could be executed.
  • The task_complete reminder loop wastes turns and tokens.

Suggested fix:

  • Discard cancelled inputs at the delivery/queue layer so they never reach the agent context. If a cancelled input must still be forwarded, tag it explicitly (e.g. [cancelled]) so the agent can safely ignore it.
  • Only emit the autopilot "mark the task complete" reminder on turns where the task_complete tool is actually exposed to the model.
Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.77

Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. Run the CLI in autopilot mode (/autopilot), inside tmux over SSH.
  2. Type an input (in my case "captain setup flyte") and cancel it before/while it is being submitted.
  3. Continue the session with a different, unrelated message some time later.
  4. The cancelled input is delivered to the agent alongside the new message, and the agent starts acting on it.
Expected behavior

A cancelled input should be dropped at the delivery layer and never enter the conversation history. The agent should never see it.

Additional context
  • GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.77
  • Model: Claude Opus 4.8
  • Autopilot mode: ON
  • OS: Linux, running inside tmux over SSH

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Línea de trabajo

Comienza reproduciendo el flujo de entrada cancelada en modo autopilot y sigue la ruta de queue/delivery que ensambla el bloque de mensajes posterior. Verifica que la entrada cancelada nunca entre en el historial de la conversación y comprueba por separado que el recordatorio task_complete solo se emita cuando esa herramienta esté disponible.

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Stack tecnológico
shell
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cli
Tipo de issue
Error
Dificultad
4/5
Tiempo estimado
3-5 días
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
Claridad
Bastante claro
Aptitud para principiantes
45/100

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