GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.355
GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.355 was released on .
Summary
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 suff...
Release Context
- This was the 28th GitHub Copilot CLI release of 2025 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 9 days after GitHub Copilot CLI v0.0.354 (November 3, 2025).
Shipped around the same time
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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
Other Recent GitHub Copilot CLI Releases
- v1.0.72 (July 20, 2026)
- v1.0.71 (July 16, 2026)
- v1.0.70 (July 10, 2026)
- v1.0.69 (July 7, 2026)
- v1.0.68 (July 1, 2026)
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