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

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Open beginner issues: 14
Indexed issues: 2.4k
Avg merge: 14h 16m
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 CLI 1.0.79-1 fails MCP initialization when `server/discover` returns `-32602` Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4370 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2026
sessionStart prompt hooks don't fire on /new , and /clear seems to skip sessionStart entirely — naming/behavior mismatch Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4365 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Enterprise MCP registry unreachable on macOS: rustls rejects private CA cert (Apple -67901), fail-closed blocks all MCP Open

area:enterprise area:mcp area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4364 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Support session cost in copilot --acp Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4363 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Focus reporting (DECSET ?1004) is not restored on exit - [I/[O leak into the parent shell Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4362 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
BYOK: populate the /model picker from the provider's /models endpoint Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4358 · 1 comment · 9 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Wrapped links leak OSC 8 escape markup in Ghostty Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4356 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Blocker: Compact can be triggered accidentally with no confirmation or Undo Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4353 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Session cost total silently loses a fixed chunk of spend the first time context compaction succeeds in a process's lifetime Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4351 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
terminal rendering issue Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4350 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Streaming long Markdown links repeatedly reflow tables Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4347 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Reasoning effort 'medium' is not supported for model 'claude-haiku-4.5' Open

area:agents area:models triage

github/copilot-cli#4345 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 3, 2026
- Rendering different landing page layouts (toc, category, journey, discovery, bespoke) Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4342 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Resuming a session has strange ux with regards to model and reasoning Open

area:models area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4340 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Cancelled user input is still delivered to the agent and processed as a valid turn (autopilot mode) Open

area:agents area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4336 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
[ACP] toolCall.title contains high-level summary instead of executable command, hiding shell command in client approval modals Open

area:non-interactive area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4335 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2026
speed conection Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4333 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Ctrl+H (delete previous character) is misinterpreted as Ctrl+Backspace (delete word) under WSL2 due to WT_SESSION leaking from Windows Terminal Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

github/copilot-cli#4328 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
BYOK Responses streaming drops apply_patch input before execution Open

area:models area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4327 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Copilot CLI loses todos and edits the wrong plan after forked Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4324 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Comments in .mcp.json not supported, causing all workspace MCP servers to be skipped Open

area:configuration area:mcp

github/copilot-cli#4323 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Allow linkage to "Trusted Access for Cyber program" Open

area:authentication area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4322 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2026
[Desktop] Pinned sessions should get their own section at the top of the left nav when grouping by status Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4321 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Nested custom agent MCP tools depend on undocumented immediate-parent grants starting in CLI 1.0.74 Open

area:agents area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4320 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Autopilot task-completion enforcement can override explicit user instructions Open

area:agents area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#4318 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Installing a Specific Version Always Installs the Latest Version Open

area:installation

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

github/copilot-cli#4317 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Undocumented `logs/security/.security-key` file created in every working directory on startup Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4314 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Allow scrolling through the current conversation history Open

area:input-keyboard area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#4313 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
The button doesn't auto-generate a commit when I click it. Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4312 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Bad default: engine falls back to 128K token budget for model Open

area:context-memory area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4310 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
## Summary Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4309 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
GitHub Copilot CLI session appeared to continue consuming AI credits after all visible tasks were completed. Open

triage

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

github/copilot-cli#4308 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Subtasks freeze and stop responding Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4306 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 30, 2026
New session sidebar cannot be navigated with arrow keys Open

area:input-keyboard area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4304 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Requesting this stays open, with the emphasis moved. Open

area:agents area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#4303 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Copilot cli Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4302 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
MCP tool arguments with array-or-string union schema (anyOf) are stringified before reaching the server Open

area:mcp area:tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

github/copilot-cli#4301 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Support bearerToken for BYO-K Open

area:authentication area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4300 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Bug/Feat: Sandbox config to selectively enable tools Open

area:configuration area:permissions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4298 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Copilot crashes on launch if log level is set to any value other than "all" or "default" Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#4297 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Bug: Cmd+V paste doesn't work in iTerm2 Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#4296 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
AI Credits Near-Limit Warning Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4295 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2026
[Bug] Resumed session injects COLORTERM=truecolor and changes prompt highlight color Open

area:sessions area:terminal-rendering area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#4294 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Sub-agents with full tool access return empty with no error; restricted-tool agent types work identically Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4293 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Colors are completely off in tmux Open

area:terminal-rendering area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#4292 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2026
#4163 is not fixed Open

area:platform-linux area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#4290 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2026
When having multiple projects in a session, PR short link directs to wrong link Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4289 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
general-purpose subagent uses gpt-5.4-mini even when configured to inherit model Open

area:agents area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4287 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Streaming: tool_use input_json_delta is buffered until complete, causing multi-minute silences on large tool arguments Open

area:models area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4286 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Issue Summary: Copilot CLI Session Resume Fails Due to Inconsistent Model Name Prefix Handling Open

area:models area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4282 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026

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