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GitHub outage on 2026-08-20: Intermittent failures creating agent tasks

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Duration
Ongoing

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We are seeing gradual recovery in Copilot Cloud Agent task status visibility as we deploy a fix for the root cause. Session output remains delayed by approximately one hour while remediation continues.

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