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[Requests and ideas] Preserve user prompts when session creation fails #1094

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@leereilly

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Category: Requests and ideas

I spent several minutes crafting a prompt in the GitHub Copilot app and hit Enter, only to receive a "Session creation failed" error. Looking at GitHub Status, I can see there was an active Copilot availability issue, so the failure itself is understandable. See https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/rfmjwng33vjf.

The frustrating part is that there appears to be no way to recover or even view the prompt that was just submitted. As a result, the entire prompt has to be recreated from scratch.

Feature suggestion: When session creation fails, preserve the user's prompt and allow it to be retried, copied, or recovered. Even a temporary draft recovery mechanism would prevent users from losing potentially lengthy prompts during transient service outages.


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App version 0.2.29
OS macOS 26.5.0
Theme GitHub
Path /chat
Tenure Day 7 (Week 1)

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