Copilot CLI Troubleshooting: Authentication, Access, Policies, and Recovery/Read the permissions help topic
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Section: Safe debugging patterns
Read the permissions help topic
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Useful when debugging why a tool did or did not run.
Learn the surrounding workflow
Compare similar commands or jump into common fixes when this command is part of a bigger troubleshooting path.
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Inspect usage metrics during a problematic session
Check how the session is behaving.
Inspect context pressure
Check whether the session has too much accumulated context.
Force a clean auth reset
Log out and back in when account state looks wrong.
Check GitHub CLI authentication status
Verify whether GitHub CLI is already logged in.