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GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

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Dominant language: Shell
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Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
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2,278 open issues indexed

"Pending message" doesn't clear on correct timming Open

area:terminal-rendering

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4281 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
ACP: expose contextTier as a session config option (parity with interactive /model picker) Open

area:configuration area:non-interactive

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4275 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 27, 2026
left/right arrow keyboard buffer Open

area:input-keyboard

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4274 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
macOS: keychain prompts on every launch when GitHub-signed and Microsoft-signed copilot binaries share login-keychain items (XARA partition mismatch) Open

area:authentication

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4273 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
`glob` tool false-negatives on any multi-segment pattern unless prefixed with `**/` Open

area:tools

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4271 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 delegated to a lesser agent to perform a code review Open

area:agents area:models

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/copilot-cli#4270 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
An empty model turn is persisted as `content: null` and permanently bricks the session Open

area:models area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4269 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Regression: exit summary not shown after upgrading to 1.0.74 / 1.0.75 Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/copilot-cli#4268 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Input box pre-filled with DA1 device-attributes reply ( [?61;6;7;…c ) on startup under native-Windows zellij Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4267 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Browser tools cannot see inside iframes: read_page returns no refs for frame content, forcing evaluate_javascript as the only interaction path Open

area:tools

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4265 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Responses disappear after submitting a prompt on Windows Terminal Open

area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

github/copilot-cli#4263 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Desktop app ignores `askUser: false` from settings.json and offers no way to disable the ask_user tool Open

area:configuration area:tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4260 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
`--resume` replays orphaned permission.requested events (no matching permission.completed) after mid-prompt process death Open

area:permissions area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4259 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
I hope all lovely fd can meet the date 🌞 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

github/copilot-cli#4255 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
/ask frequently returns no result Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4253 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Session exit writes launch-time `model` back to settings.json, silently reverting edits (self-perpetuating stale default) Open

area:configuration area:models area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4252 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Resume of a large session OOMs / grinds one CPU core for ~70 min in 1.0.74 (regression vs 1.0.73; ~3–4× memory) Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4251 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Plan canvas markdown renderer: language-tagged code fence not closed by a bare closing fence, breaking rest of document Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4250 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Plan indicator leaks across conversations after headless session switches Open

area:non-interactive area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4249 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
`/pr` does not recognize GitHub repositories that use SSH host aliases Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/copilot-cli#4248 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
plugin marketplace add reports success but registration is not persisted (browse immediately fails with 'not found') Open

area:plugins

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4247 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
archive_session times out after 60 seconds and leaves large worktrees orphaned Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4246 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Support `/rename` in VS Code agent sessions, and let the agent invoke it Open

area:agents area:sessions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#4244 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Password masking feature fails to mask passwords from agents and makes them use extra tokens Open

area:tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#4241 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Plugin MCP servers cannot resolve the active project directory Open

area:mcp area:plugins

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4234 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
[ACP] Emit `usage_update` in `--acp` mode (context window + AI credits) for parity with the interactive statusline Open

area:non-interactive

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4233 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Playwright mcp - navigate fails on localhost Open

area:mcp area:networking

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4232 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Enhance auto-injected copilot instructions to have more relevant instructions for scope Open

area:context-memory

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4231 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Trust module Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

github/copilot-cli#4229 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Xcode ACP custom agent: session/prompt always fails with "failed to produce a response" despite a working CLI and valid auth Open

area:non-interactive

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/copilot-cli#4227 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Spamming server errors during subagent execution Open

area:agents area:networking

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4226 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Coordinator stuck "Working" while only a background subagent runs — queued input not answered or shown as pending Open

area:agents

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/copilot-cli#4225 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2026
OTel spans for subagent calls omit billing attributes (github.copilot.nano_aiu, github.copilot.cost), so external cost accounting undercounts actual billing Open

area:agents

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4224 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Shell command completion never detected when running inside tmux (output appears, but command reported "still running" forever) Open

area:tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4223 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Permission scanner misclassifies git -L arguments and shell command text as directory paths Open

area:permissions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4221 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Allow users to configure the model pool used by Auto mode Open

area:models

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4218 · 1 comment · 15 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Copilot CLI crashes on exit (Windows) — libuv `uv_async_send` on a closing handle (FAST_FAIL_FATAL_APP_EXIT) Open

area:platform-windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4217 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Agent View ignores remote container context when workspace is opened in ssh dev container Open

triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4216 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
eternally loading skill part 2 Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/copilot-cli#4215 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2026
eternally loading Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4214 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
copilot cli drops enter and other key events when the terminal pane is unfocused Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4213 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Prompt box and highlighted menu items render invisible (dark-on-dark) inside tmux Open

area:terminal-rendering area:theming-accessibility

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4212 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Copilot CLI couldn't handle BigInt in structured MCP response Open

area:mcp triaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4211 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Make Copilot Autopilot request-error retry count configurable Open

area:configuration area:networking

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4210 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Support explicit inline custom agent invocation and agent chaining within prompts Open

area:agents

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#4208 · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Show per-subagent AI credit usage breakdown in /usage Open

area:agents

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/copilot-cli#4207 · 8 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Add `.agents` discovery for instructions, agents, and hooks in any opened folder Open

area:agents area:configuration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4204 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Remote MCP (OAuth): expired access token forces interactive re-auth instead of silent refresh_token grant Open

area:authentication area:mcp

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4203 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Built-in view reports Path does not exist for existing files in 1.0.73; 1.0.71 succeeds Open

area:non-interactive area:tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/copilot-cli#4202 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 21, 2026
ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-.../server/extensions/copilot/dist/o200k_base.tiktoken' Open

triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4201 · Opened Jul 21, 2026

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