Premium Request calculation for obvious failures on Github Copilot CLI side #1612
Description
Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
When there is an obvious error on the Github Copilot CLI side, a premium request is still consumed. Premium requests are "expensive" and users would like to get value for their money.
Proposed solution
The user feels cheated. Giving the user back the request will go a long way in building trust.
Example prompts or workflows
I asked it to update a copilot-instruction.md file. In this process there was an error on the server side. Even asking it to check if the previous step was done, consumes another request, so this error costed me 2 premium requests:
Continuing autonomously (1 premium request)
● Response was interrupted due to a server error. Retrying...
● Response was interrupted due to a server error. Retrying...
● Response was interrupted due to a server error. Retrying...
● Response was interrupted due to a server error. Retrying...
● Response was interrupted due to a server error. Retrying...
✗ Execution failed: Error: Failed to get response from the AI model; retried 5 times (total retry wait time:
5.9623695382536726 seconds) Last error: Unknown error
I can confirm there was nothing wrong with my connectivity. I was watching something on YouTube while the agent was working...
When asking it to check if the previous step was done, I could not even change the model.
Additional context
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