# GitHub: Copilot Coding Agent failing to start some jobs

> GitHub status incident “Copilot Coding Agent failing to start some jobs” on 2026-04-02: impact minor (vendor’s label), 12 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c
Last updated: 2026-04-02T16:30:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-04-02 16:18 UTC · Resolved: 2026-04-02 16:30 UTC · Duration: 12 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-04-02 16:30 UTC: Between 15:20 and 20:18 UTC on Thursday April 2, Copilot Cloud Agent entered a period of reduced performance. Due to an internal feature being developed for Copilot Code Review, the Copilot Cloud Agent infrastructure started to receive an increased number of jobs. This load eventually caused us to hit an internal rate limit, causing all work to suspend for an hour. During this hour, some new jobs would time out, while others would resume once rate limiting ended. Roughly 40% of jobs in this period were affected. Once the cause of this rate limiting was identified, we were able to disable the new CCR feature via a feature flag. Once the jobs that were already in the queue were able to clear, we didn't see additional instances of rate limiting afterwards. This was the same incident declared in https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/d96l71t3h63k

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub, started 2026-04-02 16:18 UTC, resolved after 12 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c
- Citation: GitHub, “Copilot Coding Agent failing to start some jobs” (2026-04-02 16:18 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Copilot Coding Agent failing to start some jobs (2026-04-02)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/j3sgbdw2lw3c)`


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