Pending prompts stay on the screen after being fired
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Description
Describe the bug
If I enter a prompt while the agent is running, it pops up as queued, with (pending · ctrl+c to cancel) next to it.
Then when the prompt clears and the steering command is injected, the pending should go away, the prompt becomes colored differently (e.g. purple for autopilot or blue in plan mode, etc). Then the agent responds to the new prompt.
However, in recent updates, this does still happen but the pending prompt remains on the screen. Even after the model has responded to the prompt. If I then put in another pending prompt, it stays on the screen too along with the other one. The only way to clear this seems to be to wait for the whole turn to finish without steering.
Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.81-7
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Start any long-running prompt with multiple steps
- While the model is thinking/working, enter a new pending "steering" prompt
- Wait for the steering prompt to be accepted and the model to respond to the steering
That is enough to reproduce; continuing to steer in this way, before the turn ends, will result in a large queue of pending messages at the bottom of the screen even if they've all been processed.
Expected behavior
The pending steering prompts should disappear from the bottom of the screen after being processed by the model
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the pending steering flow in the CLI: begin a long-running prompt, enter a steering prompt, and wait for the model to respond. Trace where processed pending prompts are rendered and cleared. Done means each processed prompt disappears from the bottom of the screen while later pending prompts remain visible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100