Agents: forked session stuck when making edits+asking question

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Since Jul 2, 2026.

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Description

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

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Steps to Reproduce:

  1. After a while in a session, the agent tries to edit a file, one outside the current repo, and never responds.

I'm not sure of the steps to reproduce. Contact me on Microsoft Teams (alias nathansa) and I can dump the trajectories of the repros I have, and work with you to repro.

When I view the session in the Agents app, I see nothing at the end:

Simple fix — this one test requires real internet. I'll skip it with a note explaining why.

Applying edits
next-response.test.ts+1-61
I don't think you got permission correctly to do that. Try again, a different way, or I can do it if you tell me what to do

look just tell me what to do and I'll make the edit, then you can produce the patch for the plan file

I don't think you got permission correctly to do that. Try again, a different way, or I can do it if you tell me what to do

When I view the same session in vscode, I see a reply (I truncated it here)

Simple fix — this one test requires real internet. I'll skip it with a note explaining why.Aborted: user_initiated

I don't think you got permission correctly to do that. Try again, a different way, or I can do it if you tell me what to do

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look just tell me what to do and I'll make the edit, then you can produce the patch for the plan file

Copilot CLI
I don't think you got permission correctly to do that. Try again, a different way, or I can do it if you tell me what to do

Copilot CLI
Here's the edit to make in the repo:

File: /home/USER/vercel-next.js/test/unit/web-runtime/next-response.test.ts

Change line 48 from:

to:

But before I produce a plan patch, one question —

4 likely ingredients:

  • this is on a forked session
  • editing a file outside the repo
  • while the agent is attempting to ask the user a question

#320206 is extremely similar to this bug.

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