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Issue with "unknown option '--no-warnings'" during operation

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with copilot CLI version 1.0.83 using the reported interactive workflow, then investigate where the --no-warnings option is introduced. Done means the CLI can operate through the described tasks without intermittently reporting an unknown-option error.

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Description

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Describe the bug

When normally operating with copilot cli, it randomly hits "error: unknown option '--no-warnings'" while operating and working through tasks.

Affected version

1.0.83

Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. Type "copilot" and start the exe
  2. Start working normally, asking questions, requesting tasks to be done, etc
  3. Wait for issue to appear
Expected behavior

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