Mission Control dashboard links 404: /copilot/tasks/<uuid> path doesn't exist; sessions actually live at /agents/tasks/<uuid>
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Description
Describe the bug
The github.com Mission Control "Created by me" dashboard shows links to remote sessions that point to a non-existent URL path. Clicking the link returns a 404, but the session itself is alive and reachable from the CLI via copilot --resume=.
The dashboard renders each session as:
https://github.com/copilot/tasks/?q=is%3Aopen
but the actual cloud API is served at:
/agents/tasks/
The two paths are not equivalent. Web routing for /copilot/tasks/ returns 404 even though the task exists in the cloud backend.
Reproduction
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Open https://github.com/copilot -> "Created by me" (or any session list).
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Click the first remote session in the list.
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Observe: browser shows a 404 / page-not-found for the task.
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In a terminal on the same account, run:
copilot --resume=05db5cb6-fea4-43ee-8914-4460ca096ca3
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Observe: CLI prints "Remote control connected" and joins the same session, MCP servers reload successfully.
API evidence (collected 2026-09-09)
| Endpoint | Auth | Status |
|---|---|---|
| GET /copilot/tasks/05db5cb6-fea4-43ee-8914-4460ca096ca3 | no | 404 |
| GET /agents/tasks/05db5cb6-fea4-43ee-8914-4460ca096ca3 | no | 400 (bad request) |
| GET /agents/tasks/05db5cb6-fea4-43ee-8914-4460ca096ca3 | yes | 200 |
| GET https://github.com/copilot/tasks/05db5cb6-... | n/a | 404 (web route) |
The CLI itself prints https://github.com/copilot/tasks/<uuid> after a successful resume, which suggests the URL template is generated client-side from a slug that omits the /agents/ prefix, instead of being derived from the actual API endpoint the CLI talks to.
Expected behavior
Clicking a session link in the Mission Control dashboard should land on a working detail page that resolves to the same task the CLI sees.
Affected version
- GitHub Copilot CLI: 1.0.84-3 (prerelease, 2026-09-09)
- Browser: latest Chrome on Windows
- github.com web app: current
Additional context
- The dashboard lists 320 active + 292 completed sessions on this account, with many entries under "No repository" -- likely accumulated test/orphan tasks from prior CLI versions and /remote experiments.
- The CLI's --resume\ works fine; only the web frontend's URL composition is broken.
- Possibly related to issue #2813 (URL format regression), but #2813 was fixed in v1.0.33 and the URL shape here is post-fix; this is a separate routing failure rather than a URL-shape failure.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start from the Mission Control "Created by me" session list and the CLI's --resume entry point, then trace how each session URL is composed and compare it with the documented /agents/tasks/ endpoint. Done means clicking a dashboard session opens the corresponding task instead of returning 404, while the existing CLI resume flow remains functional.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, shell
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100