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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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2,276 open issues indexed

Question mark at the end of the prompt sometimes opens help notice after submitting Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3368 · Opened May 18, 2026
Orphan tool_use in events.jsonl wedges sessions permanently (write-side + read-side) Open

area:sessions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3366 · Opened May 18, 2026
Session Auto-Rename does not work anymore Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3365 · Opened May 18, 2026
Feature: long-running goals via .copilot/goals.md (per-repo + global) Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3364 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 18, 2026
Response interrupted and I cannot work anymore... Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3363 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 18, 2026
Changing workdir doesn't emit event anymore Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3362 · Opened May 18, 2026
Extension onPostToolUse modifiedResult is not applied to the model's conversation context Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3361 · 2 reactions · Opened May 17, 2026
copilot plugin marketplace browse awesome-copilot - warning: templates not found Open

area:installation area:platform-linux area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3360 · Opened May 17, 2026
When i use qwen3.6-plus in copilot CLI, copilot CLI use much too tockens than in claude code. Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3359 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2026
/remote toggle stops working in long-running sessions; off/on cycle does not recover Open

area:networking area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3358 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 17, 2026
Looking for Gemma4 like feature within Github Copilot to reduce the tokens usage Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3357 · Opened May 17, 2026
Feature request: /every and /after slash commands — schedule recurring and one-shot prompts in the current session (Claude Code /loop parity) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3356 · 1 reaction · Opened May 17, 2026
CTRL+T does not expand or display model thinking for BYOK models Open

area:input-keyboard area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3354 · Opened May 17, 2026
Feature request: /config slash command — interactive editor for all writable settings (Claude Code parity) Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#3352 · Opened May 16, 2026
Copilot CLI in windows fails to start without any output Open

area:installation area:platform-windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#3351 · Opened May 16, 2026
Background sub-agents (general-purpose) get stuck indefinitely, never complete Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3350 · Opened May 16, 2026
Document safe parsing for preToolUse.toolArgs when it is a JSON-encoded string Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3349 · Opened May 16, 2026
Copy/paste does not work while agent is showing an interactive question with Wez's terminal emulator. Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3347 · 1 comment · Opened May 16, 2026
Messages submitted while background subagents are running get stranded in the Queued (N) UI region and only drain via bg-agent completion (workaround: 'submit another message' is a placebo) Open

area:agents area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3344 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2026
Support machine-level custom slash commands for cross-project workflow consistency Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3343 · Opened May 15, 2026
Quoted strings that happen to start with / are misinterpreted as paths the agent intends to read or write Open

area:permissions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3339 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
Custom agent as default agent (auto load agent on new copilot-cli session) Open

area:agents area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#3336 · Opened May 15, 2026
Some Copilot CLI base instructions issued to a subagent prevent it from writing output to a file Open

area:agents area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3335 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
Sentences containing the word kill in a heredoc body are misinterpreted as kill commands Open

area:permissions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3334 · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2026
Android/Termux support broken in v1.0.48+ (runtime.node requires glibc) Open

area:installation area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#3333 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 15, 2026
/restart does not work with --name Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3332 · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2026
Feature request: auto-update plugins on CLI startup via marketplace flag Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3331 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 14, 2026
macOS: explicit `tls.getCACertificates("system")` call adds 5+ seconds to every CLI invocation Open

area:networking

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#3330 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
Copilot CLI executes prompt before MCP servers finish connecting (missing tools on first turn) Open

area:mcp area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3329 · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2026
Auto-update applied during startup silently prevents custom agents from loading Open

area:agents area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#3328 · Opened May 14, 2026
Distinguish "agent working" vs "awaiting user input" vs "turn complete" in the title-bar indicator Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3327 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2026
Emit session configuration event with loaded tools, instructions, and extensions at startup Open

area:configuration area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3326 · Opened May 14, 2026
Feature Request: ask_user enum/oneOf fields should always offer an 'Other / custom answer' escape hatch Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3323 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 14, 2026
Post-plan-approval system message contradicts itself ("edits require manual approval" + "Proceed with implementing"), causing the model to stop instead of starting work Open

area:agents

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

github/copilot-cli#3322 · Opened May 14, 2026
Windows Terminal option "Automatically copy selection to clipboard" not respected Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3321 · Opened May 14, 2026
Copilot suddenly refusing to assist with valid requests Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3318 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 14, 2026
Include range line detection with : instead of only -. Open

area:non-interactive area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3317 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2026
Research try to use not existing tool "create" for file save Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3315 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 14, 2026
1.0.48-0: win32-arm64 prebuilds ships x64 runtime.node instead of ARM64 Open

area:installation area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3309 · Opened May 14, 2026
npx vitest run hangs when running full test suites via Copilot CLI terminal Open

area:platform-windows area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3308 · 3 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
runtime.node missing from prebuilds/win32-arm64 in 1.0.48-0 Open

area:installation area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3307 · 3 reactions · Opened May 13, 2026
Error: Native addon "runtime" not found for win32-arm64 Open

area:installation area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3306 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2026
[ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_SESSION]: The session has been destroyed — causes repeated transient retries Open

area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#3304 · 4 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
Allow /research mode to access configured MCP servers Open

area:agents area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3302 · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2026
Feature request: local web interface (like `opencode web`) Open

area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3301 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 13, 2026
when using resume allow people to favorite sessions so they are easily found Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3300 · Opened May 13, 2026
MCP re-auth occasionally does not allow new account selection when authenticating Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3299 · Opened May 13, 2026
v1.0.46 fails to start MCP server on Ubuntu 20.04 Open

area:installation area:mcp area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#3296 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
Automatic model routing: route image inputs to vision-capable model, return text to text-only model Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3295 · Opened May 13, 2026
picker area should be big, and properly searchable Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3294 · Opened May 13, 2026

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