GitHub Mobile has no continuity with Copilot CLI / VS Code sessions #207802
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Thanks for the quick acknowledgment! I appreciate the transparency about how feedback gets triaged. I'd be glad to help move this forward directly — I've been building out multi-agent AI workflows and automation tooling around Copilot CLI (see my profile for recent contributions across Grafana, Prowler, and Career Ops), so I have a solid handle on how Copilot sessions behave in practice. Happy to collaborate on design/scope for session continuity between GitHub Mobile and Copilot CLI/VS Code, or just submit a fix/PR directly if there's an existing issue or component to work from. Let me know where it'd be most useful and I'll follow whatever process works best (RFC, linked issue, PR, etc.). |
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Thanks to @4Raisan for collaborating and jumping on this so quickly! The proposal to separate session identity from the client via durable session IDs is a sound architectural move; it effectively solves the hand-off problem between VS Code and Mobile. We particularly like the idea of starting with a read-only status pilot to validate the event-flow without the overhead of full state synchronization. To the GitHub team: we would be happy to coordinate our efforts or partner on a resolution for this that aligns with your existing product roadmap and technical preferences. Let us know how you'd prefer to proceed! |
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for the finished-notification part, in the meantime: copilot cli can run MCP servers, so you can have the agent reach you when a long run is done or stuck. im the dev of callmemcp.com, it places a real call to your iphone, reads out what the agent wants to say, and your spoken answer goes back to it as text. it can also text progress. no session view or link back into the run though, and its a paid iphone only app. |
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🏷️ Discussion Type
Product Feedback
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Copilot CLI
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Summary
GitHub Mobile has no continuity with sessions started in Copilot CLI / VS Code. If I start a Copilot chat/agent session on my laptop, I can't pick it up, view its state, or continue the conversation from the GitHub Mobile app — the two surfaces are completely disconnected.
What I'd expect
Since Copilot sessions (especially longer-running or background agent sessions) are already tied to my GitHub account, I'd expect GitHub Mobile to at least let me:
Why it matters
As Copilot's agent/background-task capabilities grow (multi-step sessions that run for minutes or longer), the lack of any bridge to the mobile app makes it hard to monitor or resume work away from the desktop. Right now GitHub Mobile feels like an entirely separate product from Copilot CLI/VS Code, even though both are tied to the same account and (in spirit) the same assistant.
Has session continuity between GitHub Mobile and Copilot CLI/VS Code been discussed or planned? Happy to provide more detail on the specific workflow if useful.
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