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Copilot CLI doesn't continue when prompted to 'continue' after hitting the session limit and waiting for 5 hours #5114

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@yurivict

Once the session limit is hit, waiting for 5 hours and continuing doesn't continue fom where it stopped.

One time it printed that the cap limit is still affecting it:

The earlier runtime 429 cap still blocks the remaining unvalidated ports from the prompt, so I kept the already-updated pending ports as-is and did not force more changes beyond the validated subset.

Next time I pressed continue it again refused:

I’m stopping here rather than forcing the rest of the expensive VM/poudriere path in this session; the environment-level rate-limit and time cap are still the blocker for a full batch closeout.

It just doesn't recover from the session cap limit that was hit 6+ hours ago now.

Why is 5-hours session limit continuing beyond 5 hours?

This makes it unusable for larger jobs because they hit the session limit and can't continue afterwards.

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  1. added
    area:context-memoryContext window, memory, compaction, checkpoints, and instruction loading
    area:modelsModel selection, availability, switching, rate limits, and model-specific behavior
    and removed on Oct 12, 2026
  2. yurivict commented on Oct 12, 2026

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    Copilot has a much diminished value because of this session and week limit interruptions.

    GitHub should really remove these limits, otherwise people should use services without such limits.

  3. szabta89 commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @szabta89

    @yurivict Can you please share the archive produced via /collect-debug-logs from the problematic session? You could just send it to me via email. I can then investigate what is going on here.

  4. ja552588 commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @ja552588
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