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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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Execution failed: CAPIError: 400 {"error":{"code":"bad_request","type":"websocket_error","message":"Duplicate item found with id fc_call_ikBrgmi06fcJeO6uIpJJEQbJ. Remove duplicate items from your input and try again."}} Open

area:models area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3560 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 28, 2026
Frequent websocket_error: Duplicate item found (fc_call_* replay from session-state) Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3559 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2026
Duplicate Item Errors Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3558 · 4 comments · 8 reactions · Opened May 28, 2026
Config changes does not work over ACP Open

area:non-interactive area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3556 · Opened May 28, 2026
Feature to configure the default model and custom agent for the repo to work with both copilot cli and vs code Open

area:agents area:configuration area:models

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

github/copilot-cli#3555 · Opened May 28, 2026
Add Turns on the footer of the cli Open

area:context-memory area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3554 · Opened May 28, 2026
copilot-instructions.md sometimes ignored Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3552 · Opened May 28, 2026
Feature Request: Formalize events.jsonl as an official hook/integration API Open

area:plugins area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3551 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2026
gh repo clone octocat/Spoon-Knife Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

github/copilot-cli#3550 · Opened May 28, 2026
Plugin skill silently dropped from /skills list despite "Installed N skills" confirming load Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3546 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2026
Startup input lag (15–30 s freeze) since 1.0.52: unbounded recursive glob over $COPILOT_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS_DIRS entries Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3543 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2026
Enterprise MCP allowlist tool schemas exceed runtime token limit → persistent compaction loop Open

area:context-memory area:enterprise area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3542 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2026
Copilot CLI - Response from the copilot gets clipped and lost. Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3541 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2026
Agent regression: ignores skill hard-gates and executes unapproved actions Open

area:permissions area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3540 · Opened May 27, 2026
System/Tools consume 73% of context window (146k/200k), triggering auto-compaction on first message Open

area:context-memory area:mcp area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3539 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 27, 2026
/usage should honor the system's which-day-is-the-first-of-the-week setting Open

area:terminal-rendering area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#3538 · Opened May 27, 2026
Share sessions across machines, and developers Open

area:agents area:enterprise area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3537 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 27, 2026
CJK characters visually overlapped/dropped in input box on Windows (buffer is correct, display bug only) Open

area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3536 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 27, 2026
Windows Ramdisk Directory does not exist or cannot be accessed Open

area:platform-windows area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3535 · Opened May 27, 2026
WSL2 (ARM64): `/copy` fails with `clip.exe exited with code 1` due to cmd.exe quoting in 1.0.55 Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

github/copilot-cli#3534 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 27, 2026
cli 1.0.54 keyboard input not working on macos - prompting for username in background Open

area:authentication area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3533 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2026
Support auto-upgrading model selection when context fills (instead of compaction) Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3530 · Opened May 26, 2026
Copilot encountered an error and was unable to review this pull request. You can try again by re-requesting a review. Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#3529 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 26, 2026
Copilot CLI starts in wrong working directory Open

area:platform-windows area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3528 · 2 reactions · Opened May 26, 2026
Cannot Select Text in the Prompt Box. Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3526 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2026
Need a way to programmatically start a session/subagent with specific context window and reasoning effort Open

area:agents area:models area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3525 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 26, 2026
/copy shows clipboard error but still copies successfully Open

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

github/copilot-cli#3521 · Opened May 26, 2026
CLI 1.0.54 writes session events without required `ephemeral` field, breaking VS Code resume Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3520 · 1 comment · Opened May 26, 2026
Track last time a session was open in the session_store Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3519 · Opened May 26, 2026
Add ability to unarchive / restore an archived project session Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3518 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened May 25, 2026
Queued user messages + system_notifications delivered out of send order Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3517 · Opened May 25, 2026
CLI violates instructions by ignoring mandatory Microsoft cpp language server (LSP) usage Open

area:configuration area:tools

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

github/copilot-cli#3516 · 1 comment · Opened May 25, 2026
resume-auto-cd sets CWD to / when session was created by external producer (Agency) Open

area:configuration area:sessions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

github/copilot-cli#3515 · 1 reaction · Opened May 25, 2026
list_agents returns empty while background agents are still visibly running in UI Open

area:agents area:context-memory area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3514 · Opened May 25, 2026
Notifications on the github app of remote sessions Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3512 · Opened May 25, 2026
COPILOT_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS_DIRS only half-honored by instruction loader (1.0.54) Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3507 · 2 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Feature request: Allow plugins to declare tool requirements for custom agents when spawned as sub-agents Open

area:agents area:plugins area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3506 · 3 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Please add support for multiple agent directories like you do for skills Open

area:agents area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#3505 · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2026
[Feature Request] Implement built-in `/create-*` skills similar to those in VS Code Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3503 · Opened May 24, 2026
Chinese Zhuyin IME preedit text accumulates in the lower-right corner on macOS Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3502 · 2 comments · 31 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Scroll bar makes text unalign Open

area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3501 · 5 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Steering messages diapers when it is pending Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3500 · Opened May 24, 2026
Remote session UI does not render on GitHub Mobile app (Android) - WebSocket works but content not displayed Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3498 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Terminal output is clipped after resize/reflow and hidden text is not reachable via scrollbar Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3497 · 11 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Copy/Paste not working properly when selecting text from the Timeline Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3496 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
SKILL.md files with description > 1024 chars are silently dropped from skills.list() — no warning, no error Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3494 · Opened May 23, 2026
Feature Request: Enterprise OTel auth — mTLS env vars + dynamic-headers helper (parity with Claude Code) Open

area:configuration area:enterprise area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#3477 · 2 comments · Opened May 22, 2026
Support iTerm2 terminal on Mac with /terminal-setup Open

area:configuration area:input-keyboard

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#3475 · Opened May 22, 2026
Allow tracking of spent dollar amount in session Open

area:models area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3474 · Opened May 22, 2026
Plan mode presents the option to get a rubber-duck review Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3472 · 4 reactions · Opened May 22, 2026

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