Duplicate Item Errors

[psulightning]

Describe the bug

After initial prompt during processing, I receive errors of this format:
Execution failed: CAPIError: 400 {"error":{"code":"bad_request","type":"websocket_error","message":"Duplicate item found with id fc_call_3L6mbkYELCQh2XxmHQlVommW. Remove duplicate items from your input and try again."}} (Request ID: 00000-63415e69-425e-45d5-8f8b-23bcb99c727d)

With a subsequent prompt, I see this output:
● Request failed (transient_bad_request). Retrying...

● Request failed (session_token_refresh). Retrying...

● Request failed (session_token_refresh). Retrying...
✗ Execution failed: CAPIError: 400 Duplicate item found with id fc_call_3L6mbkYELCQh2XxmHQlVommW. Remove duplicate items from your input and try again. (Request ID: 5CA2:F9304:7D0A:8E64:6A189465)

I have quit the session and resumed, cleared the session, and quit and started fresh. I have switched between GPT-5.4, Sonnet 4.6 and auto and still receive errors.

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.54

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. copilot cli in interactive mode
2. use an agent defined at user-level
3. run prompt

Expected behavior

No duplicate request errors

Additional context

macOS Tahoe 26.5
zsh shell
gh installed via homebrew

[tjaensch]

Confirming this from a different setup. Reliably reproducing today (2026-05-28) against models gpt-5.5 and gpt-5.4 in a GitHub Actions runner via Copilot CLI invoking a custom skill. Error fires on the very first skill(...) tool call, after two transient_bad_request retries. Three back-to-back runs, three different fc_call_* IDs, same Duplicate item found outcome each time. No prompt / agent / skill changes vs. a successful run on 2026-05-19, so the trigger appears to be entirely server-side.

[collinbarrett]

I'm suspecting this is linked to a Copilot outage here based on when we started seeing the same issue: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/rhqcgg8lg6mm

But, perhaps Copilot CLI could be patched to show a more useful error message if it's a cloud issue in the future.

[yuriyp]

I’m seeing the same issue on Windows with Copilot CLI 1.0.54.

I fully reset local state by deleting %LOCALAPPDATA%\copilot and reproduced it again from a clean start, so this does not seem to be caused by stale session data on disk.

I also did not install any extra plugins or custom MCP servers. The logs only show the built-in remote github-mcp-server.

In my case, the failure happens during task/subagent execution, and after the first error the CLI retries with the same exact fc_call_* id (fc_call_hQX8mWYeH4kmsw1OFJWCHKec).

That makes it look like a CLI runtime/retry bug where an already-used tool/function-call item is being re-sent from in-memory agent state.

If useful, I can share the relevant log excerpt showing repeated WebSocket 400 errors for the same fc_call_* id.