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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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`--add-github-mcp-tool=create_pull_request` leaves the configured endpoint readonly Open

area:configuration area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3052 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Recursively discover AGENTS.md in subfolders, like VS Code's chat.useNestedAgentsMdFiles Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#3051 · 8 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Feature request: Persistent directory allow list across sessions Open

area:configuration area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3050 · 11 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Failure to write to file Open

area:permissions area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3049 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2026
[Bug] session-store.db not created on Windows WSL2 — no persistent session storage Open

area:platform-windows area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3046 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
IME composition causes window flickering/shaking on Windows Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3045 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2026
System prompt labels shell commands as tools, causing invalid tool calls and autopilot cost Open

area:configuration area:non-interactive

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

github/copilot-cli#3043 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
"ask" permissionDecision does not suppress the native trust prompt, causing two confirmations per gated tool call Open

area:permissions area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3042 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Copilot Cloud Agent gets intermittent access denied errors Open

area:authentication area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3041 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2026
MCP OAuth in headless session times out Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3039 · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Train GH Copilot to understand how branches, merges and PRs work Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3037 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Tool-callable `cwd` (equivalent of TUI `/cwd`) Open

area:plugins area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3035 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Feature request: stash prompt Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3034 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Agent can self-terminate via broad process-kill pipelines (silent session loss) Open

area:permissions area:platform-windows area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3033 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Feature request: Allow-list specific shell command patterns for tool permissions Open

area:configuration area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3032 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Sub-agent MCP tool calls fail with structuredContent: expected record, received array when server returns JSON arrays Open

area:agents area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3030 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
MCP permissions Open

area:mcp area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#3028 · 8 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
@files fails on directories with too many files Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#3027 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Introduce a command to steer agent mid-reasoning Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#3025 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Too many MCP servers results in continuous compaction Open

area:context-memory area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3024 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
copilot plugin install does not load joinSession() extensions from installed-plugins/ Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3023 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
--no-remote flag does not fully disable remote control Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3022 · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Store session state under project `.copilot/` directory to support ephemeral home directories (Docker, CI, devcontainers) Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3021 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Let copilot ask before it starts expensive exploration Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3020 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Breaking Change: .vscode/mcp.json is no longer supported Open

area:configuration area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3019 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
ctrl+e view plan for review Open

area:agents area:input-keyboard

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/copilot-cli#3017 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Authorization header dropped on JSON-RPC tools/call after successful MCP initialize (Streamable HTTP + OAuth 2.1 / DCR) Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3015 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 28, 2026
TUI footer/status line does not refresh after session/config-backed reasoning effort changes Open

area:models area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3014 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Allow to set a token limit for a task Open

area:configuration area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3012 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Show used tokens inline an not only after closing copilot Open

area:sessions area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3011 · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
[bug]copilot-cli bug report: One prompt triggered autopilot mode infinite loop Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3010 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
[BUG]: MCP OAuth callback unreachable when running in remote container / Codespaces — no manual token paste fallback Open

area:authentication area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#3009 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Output produced exceeding its own read limits Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3008 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Option to discard temp files created by copilot cli during analysis Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#3007 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Custom agent is not loaded correctly even when it's showing in the bottom status line Open

area:agents area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#3006 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Ctrl+T thinking toggle provides no screen reader feedback for state changes Open

area:input-keyboard area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#3005 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Nerd Font / PUA Unicode glyphs (U+E000-F8FF) are invisible in CLI output Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#3004 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Copilot instructing me to navigate terminal ui of another powershell executable Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3002 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Allow users to "alt+tab" to agent-spawned shell sessions for interactive tool use Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#3001 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Background explore agents take 140+ seconds and return after agent has already found answers Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#2999 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Copying from CLI pastes PREVIOUS clipboard item. Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#2998 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Cannot multi-line paste (forces Bracketed Paste Mode) Open

area:input-keyboard area:platform-windows

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

github/copilot-cli#2997 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Add --no-session-cache flag Open

area:non-interactive area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#2996 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Can´t use DeepSeek API Open

area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#2995 · 8 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2026
repeated access attempts outside current folder Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#2993 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Tool Scoping for Sub-Agents Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#2992 · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2026
/model silently hides Extra High for GPT-5.4 without explaining tier gating in Copilot CLI 1.0.36 Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#2990 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Option to disable artificial streaming delay in terminal output Open

area:configuration area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#2989 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Feature request: Support custom CLI aliases (similar to git) Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#2988 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 26, 2026
Auto-detect and prefer user-installed CLI tools over built-in Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#2986 · Opened Apr 26, 2026

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