github/copilot-cli

GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

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Dominant language: Shell
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Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
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Can't fetch available MCPs from custom registery Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4949 · Opened Sep 23, 2026
HTTP 400 Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/copilot-cli#4947 · Opened Sep 23, 2026
HTTP 400 `content[].thinking` after a background shell completion notification Open

area:models area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4946 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 23, 2026
Cancelling/closing an ask_user form silently discards all previously answered fields Open

area:tools

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4945 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Form fields don't support mouse click / cursor placement for inline text editing Open

area:input-keyboard area:tools

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4944 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
ask_user form: pressing Esc silently discards the entire form instead of clearing current input Open

area:input-keyboard area:tools

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4943 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
`session_store_sql` returns deleted sessions forever: no DELETE verb on `POST /agents/analytics/query` or `/agents/sessions/*` Open

area:context-memory area:sessions

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

github/copilot-cli#4942 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
reasoning_effort binding to claude-haiku-4.5 model fails on sub-agent invocation Open

area:agents area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4941 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Allow subagents.maxConcurrency for BYOK / non usage-based accounts (currently hard-capped at 2) Open

area:agents area:configuration area:models

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

github/copilot-cli#4940 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Unable to delete old remote sessions Open

area:sessions

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4939 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
SessionConfig.GitHubToken / GitHubTokenProvider still route to api.github.com instead of the GHEC Data Residency tenant endpoint, even with CopilotClientMode.Empty — same defect class as #4527, unresolved on the SDK session-level path Open

area:authentication area:enterprise area:networking

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

github/copilot-cli#4938 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Failed to install plugin: Access is denied. (os error 5) Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

github/copilot-cli#4937 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Allow a credential command in providers.json and managed settings so BYOK providers work without a per-invocation launcher Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4936 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Built-in Slack MCP integration requests full scope superset even when only read tools are exposed Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/copilot-cli#4935 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Passive Prompt Coaching for Copilot CLI Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4934 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Managed plugins are never re-synced from the server after install — local edits/deletions to plugin content are neither detected nor corrected (enforcement silently defeatable) Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4933 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Built-in skill `github-pr-media` cannot run: `gh auth token` is empty in a cloud agent session, and the endpoint rejects `Bearer` Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

github/copilot-cli#4932 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Cloud agent: the built-in Playwright MCP session is already closed at the first tool call, and recovery reports it as browser OAuth required Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4931 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Cloud agent: viewing any image ends the session with `CAPIError: 400 The image data you provided does not represent a valid image` Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4930 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Process-local auth token stops refreshing; all prompts fail until restart Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4929 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Windows: multi-GiB native runtime memory bursts in desktop-hosted CLI 1.0.87-0, followed by same-process release Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4928 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: long_context tier reports 872k prompt tokens while model capabilities report 1,050k Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4927 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Using playwright-cli tool classifies URLs as directories for permission prompting Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4925 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Desktop app: custom agents from .github/agents missing in fresh worktree sessions — config discovery runs before the deferred checkout populates the tree and agents are never re-scanned Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4924 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
MCP OAuth: Figma token exchange fails with "Failed to parse server response" (distinct from #4870 / #4906) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4923 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Feature request: Attach an existing chat or session to a Project Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4922 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
ask_user tool is not accessible in nested session Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4921 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Local stdio MCP server silently dropped during session-ID swap on startup (resume and /new ) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4920 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
/ask does not work with auto models Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

github/copilot-cli#4919 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Built-in ARM64 ripgrep crashes on Linux systems with 64 KiB pages due to jemalloc Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4918 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Auto model selection picks models too weak for Linux kernel patch-series work Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4917 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
MCP `text/plain` `resource.blob` results reach the model as empty output Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4916 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Copilot CLI 1.0.86 reliably crashes Ghostty 1.3.1 on macOS; Terminal.app unaffected Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4915 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Gemini continuation and /compact fail with "Tool name is required" on mixed-model history Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4914 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Text selection shifts the viewport on Linux; footer reads obsolete copy_on_select Open

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github/copilot-cli#4913 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Background sub-agent stream failures end the turn without a failure status Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4911 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: HTTP 422 cyber-risk rejection during local heap-OOM debugging Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4912 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Non-interactive MCP tool call hangs after progress notification until idle timeout Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4910 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2026
/ide finds no workspaces under the CLI sandbox: kill(pid,0) EPERM misread as a dead process Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

github/copilot-cli#4909 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Periodic MCP reconnect notifications flood conversation history, even while the session is idle Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#4907 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
MCP OAuth: DCR sends client_name "copilot-cli", rejected with 403 by Figma's allowlist (expects "GitHub Copilot CLI") Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

github/copilot-cli#4906 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Desktop app: sessions die minutes after spawn — "GitHub credential registration is no longer available for this session" makes the github-mcp-server catalog stale and fatal Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4905 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Session/chat metadata (status, title, transcript) is stale/unreliable relative to actual sub-session state Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4904 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Branch-type sessions all get updated_at bumped on any git checkout, flooding the sidebar Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/copilot-cli#4903 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
-p/--prompt values starting with - incorrectly parsed as flags (regression in 1.0.85) Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

github/copilot-cli#4902 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Atlassian MCP OAuth fails: unauthorized_client: redirect_uri is not registered (v2 endpoint) Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4901 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
config.json trustedFolders (and other managed state) lost when concurrent sessions overwrite the file on exit Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/copilot-cli#4900 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Add a configurable delay before autopilot skips clarification questions Open

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

github/copilot-cli#4899 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Explicit control over model context window size Open

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github/copilot-cli#4898 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
CLI session preemptively locks tool execution before credit exhaustion Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

github/copilot-cli#4897 · Opened Sep 18, 2026

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