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

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Indexed issues: 2.4k
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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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2,256 open issues indexed

BYOK Azure: `wire_api: completions` ignored; hardcoded api-version rejected by Azure OpenAI Responses API Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3208 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 8, 2026
Emoji table column misalignment regression (v1.0.43) — #2764 not fully fixed Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3205 · Opened May 8, 2026
`/delegate` without committing and pushing local changes Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3200 · 3 comments · Opened May 8, 2026
CTRL+C is a bit too efficient - cancel current running command - not whole session Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3198 · Opened May 8, 2026
Responses API: AssistantReasoningDeltaEvent and AssistantReasoningEvent triggered with empty content via BYOK providers (Copilot CLI) Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3196 · 1 reaction · Opened May 8, 2026
AssistantMessageDeltaEvent and AssistantReasoningEvent not triggered due to unhandled reasoning field from BYOK providers (Copilot CLI) Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3195 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 8, 2026
Mouse scroll cycles through input history in Android Studio's integrated terminal Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3194 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 8, 2026
Markdown blockquotes wrap mid-sentence and orphan words onto their own line Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3193 · Opened May 7, 2026
statusLine.command is not executed or rendered when footer.showCustom=true Open

area:configuration area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3192 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 7, 2026
Windows: copilot.exe exits 1 with empty streams when stdout is a pipe / regular file (FlushFileBuffers ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION) — breaks all non-PowerShell automation on v1.0.44-0 Open

area:non-interactive area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3188 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 7, 2026
session.rpc.extensions.list() always returns empty array when called from extension hooks Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3187 · Opened May 7, 2026
When copilot crashes with enqueued messages, you lose them Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3184 · 1 comment · Opened May 7, 2026
Custom agent with tools specification (run as subagent) confuses them with lack of skills Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3180 · Opened May 7, 2026
Subagents invoked with excessive instructions conflicting with their own Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3178 · Opened May 7, 2026
Permission Profiles: named, switchable permission presets (global + per-repo) Open

area:configuration area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3176 · 2 reactions · Opened May 7, 2026
Hook scripts (.sh files) open in the editor every time a command runs. Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3175 · Opened May 7, 2026
--add-dir does not load skills from added directory when running Copilot CLI outside that directory Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3173 · 1 reaction · Opened May 7, 2026
Strange "Somebody else is owning the clipboard" message Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3172 · 2 comments · 11 reactions · Opened May 7, 2026
[Windows] CMD windows flash on screen when MCP servers start Open

area:mcp area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3171 · Opened May 7, 2026
Add `--user` to copilot argument Open

area:authentication area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#3169 · Opened May 7, 2026
Delete images from context Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3168 · Opened May 7, 2026
preToolUse silently dropped after mid-loop extensions_reload (snapshot staleness in runAgenticLoop) Open

area:plugins area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3167 · Opened May 7, 2026
Enterprise authentication not supported by ACP server Open

area:authentication area:enterprise area:non-interactive

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

github/copilot-cli#3161 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 6, 2026
Edit file diff panel covers previous assistant output, blocking review before approval Open

area:terminal-rendering area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3150 · 2 reactions · Opened May 6, 2026
Model contradicts its own runtime behavior — claims no HTTP MCP support while actively using it Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3143 · Opened May 6, 2026
Feature Request: Allow user to add deferred Todos Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3142 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2026
/diff is hiding some lines seemingly at random Open

area:terminal-rendering area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3139 · Opened May 6, 2026
More Stable Local Installation of Plugins with Lock Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3136 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2026
BYOK statusline shows medium effort in 1.0.41 despite --effort high Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3135 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 6, 2026
Make File References Clickable in Copilot CLI Output Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3134 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 6, 2026
Add support for blocked_tools / allowed_tools for Copilot CLI task tool sub-agents Open

area:agents area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3133 · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2026
Support bundled reference resources for plugin-installed custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3131 · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2026
Copilot unable to open browser for gh authentication Open

area:authentication

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

github/copilot-cli#3130 · Opened May 5, 2026
`resolveDiscoveredConfig` does not read workspace `.mcp.json` — `includeWorkspaceSources` never set Open

area:configuration area:mcp

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

github/copilot-cli#3126 · Opened May 5, 2026
MCP tools/list_changed notification: updated tools not visible to the model until the next user turn Open

area:mcp area:tools triaged

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

github/copilot-cli#3125 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2026
/research can't write it's research report Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3123 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
Display Plugin name after skill name when using /skills command to display skill list Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3122 · Opened May 5, 2026
Claude (Sonnet 4.6) on AUTOPILOT seems wrongly integrated, doesnt terminate, stop or do anything, keeps infinate internal conversation Open

area:agents area:models area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3121 · Opened May 5, 2026
Autopilot on PowerShell does not ask for permission and keeps looping forever and discussing with itself how it doesnt have access rights Open

area:agents area:permissions area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#3120 · 1 comment · Opened May 5, 2026
BYOK gpt-5.5 --effort xhigh falls back to medium for individual plan Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#3119 · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
System prompt should not prevent creating markdown files in markdown-heavy repos Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#3115 · Opened May 5, 2026
Github CLI often caught in loop with long conversations Open

area:agents area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3114 · Opened May 5, 2026
Tool selection failure with certain MCP servers going from shell -> MCP -> shell -> MCP Open

area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3113 · Opened May 5, 2026
LSPs are initialized before running the sessionStart hook Open

area:plugins area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3112 · Opened May 5, 2026
Add a timer Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3111 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 4, 2026
[BUG]: Terminal output overwrites lines in place instead of appending to scrollback Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3110 · 1 comment · Opened May 4, 2026
Agents list print Open

area:agents area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3109 · Opened May 4, 2026
There are some missing environment variables in `copilot help environment` Open

area:tools

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

github/copilot-cli#3108 · Opened May 4, 2026
Task tool does not recognize new agents added after conversation start (hot-reload gap) Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3106 · 1 comment · Opened May 4, 2026
HTTP MCP server with Bearer token fails OAuth discovery instead of falling back to headers auth Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3100 · 9 reactions · Opened May 4, 2026

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