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

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Forks: 1.9k
Open beginner issues: 14
Indexed issues: 2.4k
Avg merge: 14h 16m
Merged PRs (30d): 6

Dominant language: Shell
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Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
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2,276 open issues indexed

copilot --resume can't use the Copilot-Session commit trailer id (it's the cloud mc_session_id, not the local session id) Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4130 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Background agents are cancelled when a new user turn emits user.abort Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4127 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Right click to copy also pastes the content into the input area Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4126 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Allow interrupt current execution with new prompt by tapping enter twice Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4125 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Show conversation title when in the conversation view Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4124 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Copilot CLI ignores AGENTS.MD Open

area:agents area:context-memory

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/copilot-cli#4123 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Terminal/tab title degrades to a bare ";" after a while in a session (SecureCRT) Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4121 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Allow customization of colors Open

area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#4117 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Copying selected prompt text includes the input box's left border Open

triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

github/copilot-cli#4116 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Copilot CLI confirmation card can't be dismissed Open

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

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

github/copilot-cli#4114 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Extension canvas.open emits malformed opened event and does not reliably focus Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4112 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Windows: long-running sessions left open across an in-place auto-update keep executing from renamed copilot.exe.old and spin one thread at 100% CPU indefinitely Open

area:installation area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4111 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2026
ctrl+x → b fails to background/interrupt a blocking read_bash call (no escape hatch when polling an async command) Open

area:input-keyboard area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4110 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Bug: /copy fails with "Connection refused" — snap package missing x11/wayland plug Open

area:installation area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#4109 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Python appears in macOS Dock when Copilot CLI starts LSP servers Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4108 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
--output-format json omits token/cost usage that OTel exposes Open

area:models area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4107 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
ACP drops subagent source identity and flattens parallel output into the parent stream Open

area:agents area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4106 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Plugin marketplace clone disables Git credential helpers, breaking private HTTPS repositories Open

area:authentication area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4103 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Native V8 array-length crash during active tool-heavy turns and session resume Open

area:platform-linux area:sessions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

github/copilot-cli#4102 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2026
write_agent may block until the target background agent starts actively processing, causing new user input to queue Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#4101 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Resuming a session can leave truncated and concatenated events in events.jsonl Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4098 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2026
apply_patch stores deleted binary in session history, permanently exceeding CAPI 5 MB limit Open

area:context-memory area:sessions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4097 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Windows: plugin update fails with "Access is denied (os error 5)" while VS Code is running (Copilot extension holds watcher handles on installed-plugins) Open

area:platform-windows area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4095 · 2 comments · 22 reactions · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Deleting a session in the app doesn't remove it from session-store.db / VS Code Copilot Chat history (orphaned session) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4094 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Temporarily mute system playback during voice capture Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4092 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Voice mode: auto-submit on spacebar release (PTT send) Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4090 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Atlassian MCP server: OAuth succeeds but zero tools exposed to sessions Open

area:authentication area:mcp triaged

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

github/copilot-cli#4089 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Dynamic context injection in Skills (`!command` placeholder) Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4088 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Atlassian MCP server auto-connects without completing OAuth flow (Sign in button disappears) Open

area:authentication area:mcp triaged

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

github/copilot-cli#4086 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2026
MCP OAuth client discovery: OAuth servers connect briefly then disconnect — tools never available in session Open

area:authentication area:mcp triaged

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

github/copilot-cli#4084 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Voice mode dowload fails with corporate proxy ENOTFOUND Open

area:installation area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4083 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Cross-app session sync between Copilot CLI and Copilot Desktop App Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4082 · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Maestro Bug 07-10-26 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

github/copilot-cli#4081 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
please allow new models to legacy(premium request base) annual users Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4080 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Scheduled prompts interrupt and halt the task queue Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4079 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
TUI black-screen hang mid-turn in 1.0.70-0 (Windows Terminal); content intact, recoverable via --resume Open

area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4077 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Make the built-in research agent's MCP tools configurable Open

area:agents area:mcp triaged

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

github/copilot-cli#4076 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Using images (like for testing UX changes) often results in the CLI getting into a broken state Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4075 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
What do you main Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4074 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
What do you main Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4073 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Session picker only shows current session (regression from ExP flight copilot_cli_remove_cwd_listing) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4071 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Garbage text when highlighting text for copy Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4070 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Allow specifying a model *family* (e.g. `opus`, `sonnet`, `fable`) that resolves to its latest stable version Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4068 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
`model` field in `settings.json` is not applied on startup; sessions fall back to default `claude-sonnet-5` Open

area:configuration area:models

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

github/copilot-cli#4067 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Configurable exit resume hint Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4066 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Copilot exfiltration protection is too agressive and block legitimate spec content. Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4065 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Links for Copilot Logs and Running Diagnostics don't work in VS Code in WSL Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4064 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Keep a persistent append handle for `events.jsonl` instead of open/append/close per event (Windows Defender rescan / CPU cost) Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4063 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2026
PR-status widget shows a newly-opened draft PR as "merged" (stale state from a previously-merged PR in the same session) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4062 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Github Copilot Terminal bug Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4061 · Opened Jul 8, 2026

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