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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

Pending prompts stay on the screen after being fired Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4564 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Allow inline annotations on plans Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#4563 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
MCP reload reuses startup workspace config after .github/mcp.json changes Open

area:configuration area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4562 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
ACP: session/cancel is answered with stopReason "end_turn" instead of "cancelled" Open

area:non-interactive area:sessions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

github/copilot-cli#4561 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Model "auto" always runs with reasoning effort disabled (reasoningEffort: null), and rejects any attempt to configure one Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4560 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Cloud coding agent opens empty PR when invoked from a fork-backed PR review comment Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4559 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Add internal interactive questioning tool 'usr_ask' Open

area:input-keyboard area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4557 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Server-managed extraKnownMarketplaces is fetched but never registers a marketplace (silent auth bail in plugin path) Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4556 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2026
ACP: session/prompt unconditionally aborts the session, cancelling all running background sub-agents (interactive TUI does not) Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4555 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Add toggle to show all sessions unscoped in `/resume` picker (bypass `cwd`/repo relevance grouping) Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4554 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Copilot CLI loops infinitely and fails apply_patch due to JSON-wrapping error Open

area:models area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4553 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
MCP server unavailable is reported as "waiting on ide" and hangs copilot-cli Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4552 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Copilot CLI remote SSH session reports “Copied” but clipboard remains empty on macOS Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4551 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Clickable file links for IDEs beyond VS Code Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4550 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[Windows] Every shell command spawns a visible PowerShell console window (new console, not hidden) that stays open for the command's lifetime Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4549 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Options passed to a custom skill invocation are dropped before reaching the model Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#4548 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Sandboxes on WSL don't allow you to run VScode remote Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4546 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Personal skills in ~/.copilot/skills/ are never discovered, despite being documented as a source Open

area:agents area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#4545 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Allow paste images into freeform question input Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4544 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Agent sessions anchor to the Windows host instead of WSL, and session state is split across two session-store.db files Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4543 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Workspace .mcp.json detected by 'mcp list'/'mcp get' but not connected in actual agent session (interactive/-i/-p) Open

area:configuration area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4542 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Add messages from the queue editor and pause dequeueing while it is open Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4541 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
wta.exe launch fails with 0x80070002 — misplaced quote in path breaks at "Program Files" (Windows, codex agent) Open

area:agents area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#4540 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Recent session disappears after Ctrl+Z/restart and local/cloud IDs diverge Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4539 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
ACP mode auto-approves tool calls again — session/request_permission not sent since 1.0.81-1 (regression of #845) Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4537 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2026
MCP tool result image content blocks are not surfaced to the model Open

area:mcp area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4536 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
`store_memory` fails in v1.0.81 prereleases: `Instance id is required` Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4535 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 20, 2026
autoUpdate: false in settings.json is ignored — CLI re-execs a cached prerelease build over the stable version installed via npm Open

area:configuration area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#4534 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Terminal UI stops consuming events (input + scroll dead) when a turn spawns parallel subagents; runtime keeps running Open

area:agents area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4533 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Pending chat lines duplicate and won't go away, eventually filling up the screen Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4532 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Launching VS Code from Copilot CLI drops empty GIT_CONFIG_VALUE and breaks Git discovery Open

area:configuration area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#4531 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Persist Reasoning Effort between sessions Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4530 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
VS Code Copilot CLI panel shows empty transcript after Remote-SSH reconnect, though session data is intact on disk Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4529 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Non-interactive sessions bypass `disableBypassPermissionsMode` managed setting Open

area:enterprise area:non-interactive area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4528 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
MCP forced re-auth appends prompt=select_account for non-Microsoft OAuth providers Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4526 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Add search/filter support to plugin marketplace browse command Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4523 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Copilot CLI 1.0.81 forces sandbox while managed policy is undetermined, overriding sandbox.enabled=false Open

area:enterprise area:permissions area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#4522 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Sandbox cannot be disabled Open

area:configuration area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4521 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Standalone .github/hooks/*.json postToolUse hook never fires (repo-root, non-plugin) Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#4520 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
400 "Missing namespace for function_call" for deferred/tool-search tools (e.g. extensions_manage) on 1.0.80 Open

area:models area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4519 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
remnux results Open

triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

github/copilot-cli#4518 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Sandbox RW path grants not honored by JVM processes spawned from Copilot CLI Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4516 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Copilot CLI exposes both MCP `content` and `structuredContent` Open

area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4515 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Unable to restore remote session locally Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4514 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Plugin marketplace cache ignores ref when shared across projects with different branches Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4513 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Allow locally-defined stdio MCP servers to run when the MCP registry policy fetch fails (no managed policy in force) Open

area:enterprise area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4512 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Session AIC display is not reliable Open

area:models area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4511 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
--no-alt-screen was silently removed with no replacement — alt-screen is now unavoidable and broken Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4509 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Feature request: reload .github/instructions mid-session (long-running sessions never pick up instruction updates) Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4508 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Repository-level enabledPlugins in .github/copilot/settings.json is ignored in non-interactive (copilot -p) mode Open

area:non-interactive area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4507 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2026

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