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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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github/copilot-cli#4764 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
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triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4763 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Background subagent start events deferred until parent task completes (1.0.83) Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#4760 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Session wedges permanently when a queued-lane message lands at turn end (idle finalization suppressed, queue never drains) Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4755 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Deleting an evicted session silently no-ops: session reappears after restart, and ON DELETE CASCADE never fires Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4754 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
--agent <name> doesn't recognize custom agents loaded via --add-dir Open

area:agents area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#4752 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Copilot TUI hogs CPU Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4750 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Azure MCP learn=true calls time out after 180s in Copilot CLI 1.0.83-5 Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4749 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
/refine failures Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4747 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ACP: end_turn precedes background-shell completion and autonomous follow-up tool calls; no observable session-idle signal Open

area:non-interactive area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4743 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Desktop app 1.1.15: cannot create a second Local (branch) session while one is running — "This project already has an active Local workspace" Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4742 · 11 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Voice server permanent deadlock when pid file is deleted while server process survives (bind-loser exits before writing pid) Open

area:platform-windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

github/copilot-cli#4740 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
ask_user form: pressing Enter early submits/cancels and permanently discards the in-progress typed answer Open

area:agents area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4738 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
thx copilot Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4737 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Make Ctrl+E accept inline autocomplete suggestions Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4736 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Assistant text preceding a tool call is reclassified as reasoning and summarized into "Thought for Ns" (never shown to the user) Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4735 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2026
When hit max_output_tokens, some events are not emitted and logged Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4733 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
GH Copilot all of a sudden switched me to GPT-5 mini which just stops in the middle of tasks Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4732 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
A tools/list refresh dispatched into a server still blocked by a just-cancelled tool call times out and permanently strips that server's tools for the life of the process Open

area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4731 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Built-in research agent tells subagents to call unavailable github/get_me tool Open

area:agents area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4729 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Auto-update rewrites the `copilot.exe` it was launched from, breaking the GitHub Copilot app's bundled CLI Open

area:installation area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4728 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Changes tab does not update after the session's PR is merged Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4727 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
OTel: post-reload resumed turn emits `invoke_agent` root without input messages Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

github/copilot-cli#4726 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Frequent JavaScript heap out of memory Open

area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#4725 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Auto-compact on idle, aligned to the model's prompt cache TTL Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4724 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
[Bug] --interactive startup prompt is silently dropped with a local plugin custom agent Open

area:agents area:non-interactive area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4723 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Leading underscores (e.g., _test) vanish in Copilot Chat bubbles and output due to Markdown parsing of unclosed emphasis Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4722 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Canvas open_canvas arguments corrupted by CLI — JSON-RPC serialization bug Open

area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4721 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Bug: Copilot CLI 1.0.82 BYOK silently disables prompt caching (~5x cost) Open

area:models area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4720 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Detached PowerShell command is reported completed while its child process is still running Open

area:platform-windows area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4719 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Extension startup fails on large session histories Open

area:plugins area:sessions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

github/copilot-cli#4717 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
/voice dictation intermittently captures nothing on WSL2/WSLg (PvRecorder read failure during RDP audio reconnect) Open

area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#4716 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Allow built-in Agent Plugin Marketplaces to be blocked Open

area:enterprise area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4715 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Resuming a session is extremely slow, does not display UI that would indicate loading Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4714 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
/usage help text does not explain mixed metric scopes Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4712 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Runaway copilot-file-search thread consumes CPU and unbounded disk while session is idle Open

area:sessions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4710 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Multi-repo collection workspace never associates a worktree when member repos have different default branches (main vs master) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4709 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Subagents cannot access installed skills that are available to the main agent Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4708 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Add setting option to disable the scrollbar Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4707 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Tool/function calls intermittently emit malformed invocation markup (court / <invoke>) and silently no-op Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4706 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Queued prompts occasionally remain stuck after the session becomes idle Open

area:input-keyboard area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4705 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Feature request: /resume and /session should support filtering by current working directory Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4704 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Per-agent provider selection for custom agents Open

area:agents area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4703 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Permission-gate/tool-approval preview truncates full Windows paths Open

area:permissions area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4701 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
`skillDirectories` setting from `settings.json` is not honored in ACP mode (`copilot --acp`) Open

area:configuration area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4700 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
OOM crash (`JavaScript heap out of memory`) on long `--resume` sessions; crash dumps written into the user's cwd Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4699 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 2, 2026
/clear does not terminate previous stdio MCP server child processes (unlike /mcp reload ) Open

area:mcp area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4697 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
allow-all mode resets after long inactive period Open

area:permissions area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4696 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
MCP OAuth tokens for HTTP servers not reliably reused across sessions — duplicate cache-key entries force repeated re-auth Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4695 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2026
WSL2: Copilot CLI 1.0.82 consumes ~31 GB RSS and ~57% CPU Open

area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#4694 · Opened Sep 2, 2026

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