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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

Memory-pressure watchdog force-compacts the conversation at 23% context usage, recovers 0.003% of tokens, then loops until OOM Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4506 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Resumed session retains stale connection item IDs after interrupted response Open

area:networking area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4505 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 16, 2026
account.getQuota returns the request timestamp as resetDate instead of the quota reset date Open

area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4504 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Add a way to un-archive a session that was marked as Done Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4502 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Codespaces ships Copilot CLI 1.0.3 and `copilot update` only installs with `sudo` Open

area:installation area:platform-linux

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

github/copilot-cli#4501 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
v1.0.79 fatal "Committing semi space failed" OOM in autopilot with V8 heap only ~0.6/4.3 GB (host-RAM commit failure, not heap limit) Open

area:non-interactive area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#4499 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
CoPilot decided that the word "Enslaved" is a good word to use. Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4498 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Add support for GPT-5.6 reasoning.mode parameter Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4495 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Newly enabled model remains unavailable until local Copilot state/cache/login is cleared Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4494 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
bug: /restart fails in sessions created with -w Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4493 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
/spawn command template instructs the agent to reuse an existing session, contradicting its own singular-spawn contract - and no approval gate on the resulting cross-session write Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4491 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
When resuming an old session the agent used in that old session is not selected Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4489 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Plugin updates fail with Access is denied when other Copilot CLI or VS Code sessions are open Open

area:platform-windows area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4488 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Inter / intra dependency specification and resolution mechanism for marketplace plugins Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4487 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Edit permission request "times out"? Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4486 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Theme turns light over night Open

area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#4485 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2026
can't access rubber-duck anymore Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/copilot-cli#4484 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
CLI/harness bug Open

area:models area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4483 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Directories listed in allowed_directories in ~/.copilot/permissions-config.json do not suppress the "path outside your allowed directory list" prompt for shell commands. Open

area:configuration area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4482 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Copilot App 1.1.8 still gated by org "Copilot CLI" policy despite "GitHub Copilot app" policy being Enabled Open

area:authentication area:enterprise

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

github/copilot-cli#4481 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Code debugging incorrectly flagged as cybersecurity risk Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4479 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2026
MCP server collision detection is case-sensitive across configuration scopes Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4478 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Session and prompt lost when stopping an action or hitting the stop button Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4477 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Clarify startup message "No copilot-instructions.md found" to specify it means the repo-scoped file Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4475 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
General Chat is silently archived after session resume timeout, with no restore UI Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4474 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
claude-haiku-4.5 sub-agent fails with reasoning effort 'medium' not supported Open

area:agents area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4473 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Remote MCP (OAuth/Streamable HTTP): concurrent tool calls during token refresh each spin up a new rmcp service, cancelling in-flight tool calls with "transport closed before the tool responded" Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4472 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Add a way to list currently running Copilot CLI sessions with their status Open

area:non-interactive area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4470 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Orphaned permission.requested event replays on every session resume, causing repeated directory-access prompts that can't be dismissed Open

area:permissions area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4469 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
`--server --stdio` never releases a session's extension-host processes; they accumulate at 4 per session until the server exits Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4468 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Long-running agent sessions exhaust event storage and appear cancelled while CLI remains active Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4467 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Remote MCP: transient 5xx (e.g. 502) on `initialize` marks server failed for the whole session with no retry/backoff Open

area:mcp area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4466 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Bug] autoUpdate on extraKnownMarketplaces entry does not trigger plugin update at session start Open

area:configuration area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#4465 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
MCP OAuth intermittently fails on Windows with socket error 10013 Open

area:authentication area:mcp area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#4463 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Explicit code-review subagent model override is ignored Open

area:agents area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4462 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Stdio Docker MCP containers remain running after closing a session Open

area:mcp area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4461 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Spurious "Unknown tool name" warning when a cross-family sub-agent inherits the parent tool list Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4457 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Allow use of system installed Github CLI instead of the bundled installaion (gh.exe) Open

area:configuration area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#4456 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Session picker: selected-but-inactive row is indistinguishable from other inactive rows (low contrast) Open

area:sessions area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#4455 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Make `--max-autopilot-continues` persistable in settings and adjustable mid-session via /limits Open

area:configuration area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4454 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Explicit slash skill is redundantly reloaded through model registry and fails with “Skill not found” Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#4451 · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Assistant text before a tool call (e.g. ask_user popup) is hidden in the collapsed "Thought for…" block instead of rendering as chat Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4450 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Search stuck and never finishes Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4448 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Backspace is removing words at a time Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4447 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Policy to require copilot cli sandbox and push config Open

area:configuration area:enterprise

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

github/copilot-cli#4446 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Explicit file edit mode Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4444 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Permission prompts don't distinguish read-only from write operations outside cwd Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#4443 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Copilot CLI binary contains vulnerable version of adm-zip package Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4442 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Preserve durable context across repeated compactions Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4441 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Read `.claude/rules` Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#4440 · Opened Aug 11, 2026

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