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Restarting copilot uses AI credits #3886

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@laeubi

Describe the bug

Since a while now using /restart or /resume (also /update) consumes non trivial amount of AI credits.

According to my experience there seem to be a somehow fixed amount of 174 AI credits being consumed (not sure where this number comes from). According to https://github.com/proxy/docs.github.com/de/copilot/concepts/billing/usage-based-billing-for-individuals an AI credit costs 0.01 $ resulting in an amount of 1,74 $ charged for ... nothing!

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

  • Do some work in copilot cli
  • Use /restart
  • Exit copilot without doing anything
  • You see the session used 174 AI credits even though not a single prompt was submitted

Expected behavior

I can restart/resume without getting charged until actually work is performed!

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Activity

  1. added theissue type on Jun 22, 2026
  2. added
    area:sessionsSession management, resume, history, session picker, and session state
    area:modelsModel selection, availability, switching, rate limits, and model-specific behavior
    and removed on Jun 22, 2026
  3. laeubi commented on Jul 27, 2026

    @laeubi
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    Still an issue - this makes it often less "expensive" to just start a complete new session and let copilot learn everything from scratch what completeley defeats the purpose of --resume

  4. laeubi commented on Sep 24, 2026

    @laeubi
    Author

    It seems still present here ... can there be at least some kind of confirmation like

    Resuming this session will consume approximately X AI credits, continue?

    currently it is completely random and unpredictable!

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