cli 1.0.54 keyboard input not working on macos - prompting for username in background

[cfrichot-b]

Describe the bug

When starting copilot I'm finding the text input unresponsive, and presented partially over the TUI is the message Username for 'https://github.com':. Over time, this message appears multiple times.

The app also doesn't directly respond to Ctrl^C

This is on Macos Tahoe 26.4.1 in both Ghostty and iTerm2, installing copilot via brew

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.54

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to empty folder in Ghostty/iTerm2
2. Start copilot
3. Input doesn't work

Expected behavior

Should be able to type prompts into the copilot TUI

Additional context

• Operating system: Macos Tahoe 26.4.1
• CPU architecture: M4 Pro
• Terminal emulator: Ghostty 1.3.1 Build 15212
• Shell: zsh 5.9

[themissingcow]

@cfrichot-b If it helps, this happened to me when the CLI was trying to clone a repo via https at startup to add org skills (should show up in the process tree). I usually use ssh for auth so the https clone was failing. Running gh auth setup-git so git would use gh as creds helper fixed it.

[copilot-cli-bot]

This appears to be resolved as of GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.89. Please update to that release or a newer stable version. We're closing this as completed. If it still happens, please comment with your version and reproduction steps.