Execution failed: Error: Failed to get response from the AI model; retried 5 times

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Describe the bug

I have the following issue in GitHub Copilot CLI. It happened using Opus 4.8, and it unfortunately used 15 PRs without performing anything meaningful.

● Request failed due to a transient API error. Retrying...

● Request failed due to a transient API error. Retrying...

● Request failed due to a transient API error. Retrying...

● Request failed due to a transient API error. Retrying...

● Request failed due to a transient API error. Retrying...


Execution failed: Error: Failed to get response from the AI model; retried 5 times (total retry wait time: 30.56 seconds) (Request-ID 9DD0:329977:76A6DF:80D0C6:6A18A998) Last error: CAPIError: 503 {"error":{"message":"Claude Opus 4.8 is currently experiencing issues. We are actively working to resolve the issue. In the meantime, you might want to use a different model.","code":"model_degraded"}}


Changes    +277 -2
Requests   15 Premium (14m 55s)
Tokens     ↑ 3.6m (3.5m cached) • ↓ 33.1k

Affected version

1.0.55

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Launch Copilot CLI with --autopilot and use Opus 4.8. After a while, it would fail and give the above error.

Expected behavior

No response

Additional context

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