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

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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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2,278 open issues indexed

Copilot Stuck Working Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4625 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Regression: "Open in VS Code" moved from one-click session action to Changes-panel dropdown Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4624 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Gemini models fail with 400 for any MCP tool whose array `items` has a union type (e.g. ["object","null"]); GPT/Claude unaffected Open

area:mcp area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4623 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Support configurable user-level discovery paths for agents, skills, hooks, and instructions Open

area:agents area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4622 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Rubber duck reviews leave no verifiable record: independence and findings are unauditable after the session Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4621 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Allow pinning the GitHub theme to dark or light Open

area:theming-accessibility

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

github/copilot-cli#4620 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2026
The /copy command does not work in WSL Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4619 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
PC waking from sleep: `/yolo` no longer works; have to approve every request until I restart session Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4618 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
chrome-devtools-mcp filePath writes rejected for every path: "not within any configured workspace roots" Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4617 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Bug: /copy still fails on GNOME/Mutter Wayland in 1.0.80 — xclip fallback wrongly gated on WAYLAND_DISPLAY being unset Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4615 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
macOS: MallocStackLogging warning persists in v1.0.80 Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4614 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2026
High-severity 1.0.80+ regression: MCP schemas are eagerly injected, adding 354K startup tokens Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4613 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Runaway FileWatch host-event loop freezes TUI and grows debug log to 13 GB Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4612 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2026
sea-loader.js: lexicographical localeCompare in fi() causes -9 to be selected over -10 / -11 in package cache Open

area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#4611 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2026
No approval required for any tool execution in docker sandboxes Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4609 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Hooks from a live path-sourced plugin do not run in a resumed session (regression in 1.0.81-8) Open

area:plugins area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4608 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Google Workspace MCP OAuth fails on accounts.google.com trailing-slash issuer mismatch Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4606 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2026
latest-prerelease lookup strands users on 1.0.81-9: releases share created_at, so GitHub ranks -10 below -2 and the first listed prerelease is chosen Open

area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#4605 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Add persistent per-user exclusion for duplicate Copilot instruction files Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/copilot-cli#4603 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
store_memory fails for entire session and all MCP servers are stripped - shared root cause: managedSettings fails closed on serverFetchFailed flap Open

area:context-memory area:enterprise area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4602 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Copilot constantly nags about "parent directory" access when it's clearly in a subfolder of the project directory Open

area:permissions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

github/copilot-cli#4601 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Images returned from MCP tool results are silently dropped when using a BYOK provider Open

area:mcp area:models

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

github/copilot-cli#4600 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Add sessionTitle field to hook output (like additionalContext) for programmatic session renaming Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4599 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
MCP: startup connects only 3 of 18 servers and never retries; reloads destroy live handles mid-session (NativeMcpHostHandle has been destroyed) Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4598 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
pasting issue Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4597 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
System prompt still instructs the model to use grep, glob, view and lsp after --available-tools has removed them Open

triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

github/copilot-cli#4596 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
fetch_copilot_cli_documentation fails with ENOENT: README.md is declared in files[] but absent from released platform tarballs Open

area:installation area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4595 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Custom agent `tools:` — `web` and `search` aliases bind zero tools on CLI 1.0.81-9, silently disabling web + file search Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4594 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Archiving a worktree session fails on Windows (os error 32): worktree is removed without stopping the session process tree rooted in it Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4593 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
[Bug] Interactive mode activates 0 plugin custom agents while --prompt activates 4 Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4592 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Allow end-aligned truncation for path and branch footer items Open

area:configuration area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4591 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Extension SDK reconnects dispose the session hook processor: "Hook processor is not configured for session id" Open

area:plugins area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4590 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Show raw token counts in the status line Open

area:context-memory area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4589 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
You are not authorized to use this Copilot feature, it requires an enterprise or organization policy to be enabled. (Request ID: C3DF:680C1:29E4ED6:2E0F443:6A8C5B8E) Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4586 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Local sessions blocked when origin cannot be verified (SSH remotes on GHE) Open

area:enterprise area:networking area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4585 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
MCP OAuth broken with agentgateway + Entra ID Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4584 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Add PDF file upload support to GitHub Copilot CLI Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4583 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
MCP OAuth authorize request omits 'scope' parameter for Entra ID servers with static oauthClientId, causing AADSTS900144 Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4582 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Support image generation for developer assets (icons, favicons, logos, OG images) Open

triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/copilot-cli#4581 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Allow /fork to open a new terminal and add copilot --fork Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4580 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Allow multi-turn conversations inside /ask Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4579 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
includeCoAuthoredBy: false is not inherited by task subagents; their commits still get the Co-authored-by trailer Open

triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/copilot-cli#4576 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Background compaction can lose a completed parallel GPT tool result and cause HTTP 400 Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4572 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Compaction is triggered at 50% with GPT-5.6 Luna Max Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4571 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Windows: plugin install/update fails with "Access is denied. (os error 5)" while VS Code is running Open

area:platform-windows area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4570 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
GitHub Mobile stays "Queued for Copilot" after remote CLI already responds Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4569 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
--cloud owner picker hangs, reconnect crashes, and task polling reaches 429 Open

area:networking area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4568 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Explicitly trust an insecure (http://) OTLP exporter endpoint (align with VS Code + Copilot Default OTLP Endpoint) Open

area:configuration area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4567 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Agent repeatedly acknowledges work without executing tool actions Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4566 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Action Requested: App Configuration Problems Found in repo [copilot-runtime-bazel-cache] Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4565 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026

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