GitHub Copilot incident

Disruption with users unable to start Claude and Codex agent task from the web

Minor Resolved Upstream link ↗

Started

April 23, 2026 at 07:28 PM UTC

Duration

13 min

Resolved

April 23, 2026 at 07:42 PM UTC

Updates timeline

  1. Investigating

    We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.

  2. Investigating

    We have identified the root cause of the issue and are working on mitigation.

  3. Resolved

    Between 18:45 and 19:42 UTC on April 23, users were unable to start new agent tasks using either Claude or Codex agent on github.com. This was caused by a code change to how Copilot mission control routes task creation requests. Ongoing agent tasks and other Copilot agent features were not affected. We mitigated the impact by reverting the breaking change. We are adding extra monitoring and integration test coverage for the task creation path to prevent future recurrence.

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