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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
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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2,352 issues indexed so far

Autopilot permissions don't reset after cycling off of autopilot mode Open

area:agents area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#1835 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Auto-detect parallelizable tasks and suggest /fleet mode Open

area:agents area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#1833 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Support multi-root workspaces via .code-workspace file for additional folder context and instruction files Open

area:configuration area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#1826 · 4 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Empty Input Schema Breaks Copilot CLI Open

area:mcp area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#1825 · 1 comment · 10 reactions · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Highlighting text with shift and arrow keys Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1821 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
/plan mode strips tool set to 4 tools, breaking /fleet and read-only workflows Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1820 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Skill references trigger unnecessary directory access prompts Open

area:permissions area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#1819 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Isn't GPT-5 mini 0x supposed to be free under Pro? Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#1816 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Diff highlights entire line now instead of just the changed text Open

area:theming-accessibility

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#1813 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Using v0.0.421 and when switching to autopilot the Enable autopilot mode dialog is gone Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1810 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Ability to disable autopilot mode from Shift+Tab cycle Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1806 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
🐛 Rocket Scroll Fix for xterm.js Web Terminals — 4-Layer Solution with Reference Implementation Open

area:terminal-rendering area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#1805 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Support MCP resources/read primitive Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#1803 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Agents get stuck in a loop when using skill files Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1802 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Auto model selection Closed

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#1801 · 1 comment · 10 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
How to turn off alt-screen views? Open

area:configuration area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#1799 · 12 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
skills warnings and errors distort the /skills menu Open

area:plugins area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#1793 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Global session history registry and copilot --history flag — persistent cross-session stats and audit log accessible without starting the agent Open

area:agents area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#1791 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 3, 2026
/cleanup slash command — detect and resolve orphaned, stale, and hung processes from previous sessions Open

area:mcp area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#1790 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Collapsible live tool usage panel — MCP servers, built-in tools, and native functions call stats Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#1788 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Collapsible output sections per type (thinking, command output, tool calls, messages) with colour-coded type indicators Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#1787 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
History navigation (↑/↓) scrolls line-by-line through multi-line prompts instead of jumping between entries Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#1786 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Collapsible real-time session stats panel (tokens, context, API calls, premium requests, cache, duration) Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#1784 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Collapsible worker/background agent panel showing active sub-agents, model, reasoning level, and task description Open

area:agents area:authentication area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#1783 · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Edit queued prompts in-place before they execute Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1782 · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Interactive queue manager — browse, inspect, and remove queued prompts with confirmation Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1781 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Recover queued and pending prompts after agent crash or unexpected exit Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1780 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
MCP: backslashes need to be escaped when adding server info Open

area:mcp

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

github/copilot-cli#1778 · Opened Mar 2, 2026
List custom agents as slash commands with a prefix. Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1774 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Copy text in VS Code terminal doesn't work. Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1765 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Est. 0 Premium requests Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#1764 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 2, 2026
CLI looks wrong in xterm with non-UTF charset inside Open

area:terminal-rendering area:theming-accessibility

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

github/copilot-cli#1763 · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Allow setting context compaction threshold Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#1761 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Allow external custom agents (installed from plugins) to access globally configured MCP servers Open

area:agents area:installation area:mcp area:plugins area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#1756 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Mismatched model names between cli and vs code Open

area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#1752 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 1, 2026
Running agent in main editor pane in VSCode doens't show agent name Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1749 · Opened Mar 1, 2026
Allow custom agent to be specified via full qualified file path Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1747 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 1, 2026
GitHub Copilot CLI error with Codex 5.3 Open

area:enterprise

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

github/copilot-cli#1739 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Feature request: customizable thinking/spinner messages Open

area:configuration

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

github/copilot-cli#1738 · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2026
`--allow-tool shell(git)` does not blanket-allow all git subcommands — only a narrow undocumented subset is covered Open

area:permissions

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

github/copilot-cli#1736 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Context Compaction needs Guardrails Open

area:context-memory

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

github/copilot-cli#1735 · Opened Feb 28, 2026
--resume should show the most recent sessions first and support filtering Open

area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#1734 · Opened Feb 28, 2026
sessionStart hook in .github/hooks/ does not fire in Copilot CLI (v0.0.420) Open

area:plugins

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

github/copilot-cli#1730 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Configurable Keybinds Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1729 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2026
Shortcut to cycle through my Custom Agents Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1728 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 27, 2026
improve handling of copy pasting leading / Open

area:input-keyboard

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

github/copilot-cli#1727 · Opened Feb 27, 2026
UI: Remaining requests percentage displays unrounded floating-point value Open

area:terminal-rendering

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

github/copilot-cli#1726 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 27, 2026
Copilot CLI uses global git stash in worktrees Open

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

github/copilot-cli#1725 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 27, 2026
Show the current TODO status Open

area:agents

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

github/copilot-cli#1724 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2026
Copilot CLI can't read output from nx Open

area:tools

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

github/copilot-cli#1721 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2026

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