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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
  1. Open https://github.com/copilot -> "Created by me" (or any session list).

  2. Click the first remote session in the list.

  3. Observe: browser shows a 404 / page-not-found for the task.

  4. In a terminal on the same account, run:

    copilot --resume=05db5cb6-fea4-43ee-8914-4460ca096ca3

  5. 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.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. 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

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