Sessions stuck permanently in "In use" state when not in use

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#4,845 opened on Sep 14, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 48/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Active
Tech stack: shell
Domain: cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported shutdown scenario and inspect how the CLI records and reloads a session's "In Use" state. Verify whether reopening a stuck session changes that state, then confirm that sessions left by an unclean shutdown no longer remain hidden or trigger a false in-use warning.

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Description

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Describe the bug

I have several sessions which were never marked no longer in use, and now do not show back up in the session list automatically. I have to /resume them every time, and accept a false warning that they're in use elsewhere. They've only ever been in use on one machine which shuts down regularly. This may be the cause of why the state was not cleaned up. However reopening these sessions does not reset the "In Use" flag, so the issue is permanent.

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.84-6

Steps to reproduce the behavior

This is a guess

Have a session
Computer shuts down without cleanly terminating Agency
Start agency, see session is still "In Use"

Expected behavior

Sessions should not be marked in use when they are not in use.

Additional context

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