Support non-local session store

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#666 opened on Mar 4, 2026 0 comments 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: docker, github, java
Domain: api, backend, cli, cloud

Research direction

The issue names the session.list RPC and proposes GET /user/copilot/sessions; start by tracing that RPC and how PAT authentication is used. No file, test, or entry point is identified, so confirm the SDK’s current session storage and API boundaries before defining done as remote session history being returned in non-local environments.

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Description

Product Feedback: Copilot CLI SDK — Sessions are local-only

The session.list RPC only reads from ~/.copilot/ on the local filesystem — there's no cloud-backed API to fetch session history remotely even though we are authenticating via the same PAT across different environments/servers.

This makes it difficult to build production-deployed apps (e.g. Docker containers) that display a user's Copilot CLI sessions. Auth works fine, but session.list always returns 0 results in any non-local environment.

🙏 Feature request: A cloud API endpoint like GET /user/copilot/sessions (similar to how Copilot Chat syncs sessions in VS Code) so session history is accessible remotely as long as the user authenticated via the same PAT

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