CopilotConversation403Error on GCC (Government Community Cloud) tenant — CLI and MCP both fail
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Description
Summary
WorkIQ CLI and MCP server return CopilotConversation403Error on a GCC (Government Community Cloud) tenant. Authentication succeeds, tenant is fully provisioned, and Copilot works in the browser — but all programmatic access via WorkIQ fails with 403.
Environment
- Platform: macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows 11
- WorkIQ version: 0.4.0.16790
- Cloud: GCC (not GCC High or DoD) — uses commercial login.microsoftonline.com and graph.microsoft.com endpoints
- Account: Global Admin with Microsoft 365 Copilot license assigned
Steps to Reproduce
- Run
Enable-WorkIQToolsForTenant.ps1— completes successfully - Run
Verify-WorkIQTenant.ps1— all checks pass (all 10 MCP server service principals, CLI service principal, all 7 Graph scopes, all 13 MCP server scopes) - Run
workiq ask -q "hello" - Result:
Error: Exception of type 'ApiSdk.Models.CopilotConversation403Error' was thrown.
The same error occurs via the MCP server (ask_work_iq returns {"response":null,"conversationId":null,"error":"An error occurred while processing your request."}).
What Works
- Copilot in the browser (Teams/M365) responds correctly to the same queries
- Authentication completes without error (WAM broker provides token silently)
- Tenant verification script confirms all service principals and permission grants are in place
Question
Is GCC supported? If not, is there a timeline for GCC support, or a workaround?
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with Enable-WorkIQToolsForTenant.ps1, Verify-WorkIQTenant.ps1, workiq ask, and the ask_work_iq MCP operation. Compare the successful tenant checks and browser behavior with the programmatic requests to determine whether GCC is supported. Done means establishing support status, a documented workaround, or a confirmed maintainer decision on GCC support.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- api, cli, cloud
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100