Summary

GitHub’s status page said Copilot Cloud Agent tasks were still completing, but newly started tasks did not show ongoing progress and session output was delayed by about an hour. GitHub reported gradual recovery during the window and marked the incident resolved at 00:37 UTC on 21 August.

Why it matters

Agentic development depends on trustworthy task state; invisible progress makes automation harder to supervise and can lead users to duplicate or incorrectly escalate work.

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