GitHub Copilot CLI vv0.0.355

November 12, 2025

Summary

Release Notes

0.0.355 - 2025-11-12 - Enabled the CLI agent to read its own /help and README to answer questions about its capabilities - Improved parsing of VSCode-formatted custom agents with the .agent.md suffix - Sanitize tool names to fix issues like https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/456 - Bundled ripgrep and added grep and glob tools for more performant searching of codebases - Fixed malformed tool call handling before it reaches the UI (partially addresses https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/393) - Prevent double line wraps in markdown messages - Fixed a bug where the file selector was used in multi-line input that led to unexpected up/down arrow behavior (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/350) - Fixed a bug where remote MCP server configuration in custom agents was not fetched properly - Added more detail and improved the styling of the /session command's output - Removed the internal NODEENV variable from the shell tool's environment (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/151) - Fixed a memory leak when using the interactive shell tool - Improved line number formatting in file view output (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/471) - Lowered the default shell tool timeout and updated prompt language to not imply that timeout means failure - Ensured that we query the terminal background color before rendering (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/36) - Ensured that the agent won't run pkill on its own PID - Fixed a bug where copilot would not quit after an abort signal (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/529) - Ensure ! commands on Windows use PowerShell when available (fixes https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/504) - Fixed a bug in Windows Terminal where keyboard input was not accepted

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