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Edit permission request "times out"? #4486

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@dscho

Describe the bug

GitHub Copilot CLI started to time out when I did not immediately jump onto edit permission requests. I do leave sessions open over night, and I frequently have several sessions open in parallel, so these timeouts are really, really annoying. This only started happening with a recent update, I swear that this didn't occur in any session I had open a month ago, for example. Symptom:

 ✗ Edit  Edit src/digestive.rs                                                                                  10m 0s

 ● The edit did not apply because the permission request timed out; [...]

Affected version

/version says: ● GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.80 You are running the latest version.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Ask Copilot to make a code change. Let it wait for 10 minutes.

Expected behavior

Copilot should be as patient with me as I am with it.

Additional context

Seems to happen across OSes, I tested with WSL and with Windows. I'm using GPT 5.6 Sol, if that makes any difference.

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