How to prevent GitHub Copilot CLI from being interrupted by computer sleep settings
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Joseph Guadagno
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Summary
The article discusses how aggressive power settings on modern computers can interrupt GitHub Copilot CLI tasks when users walk away. The author discovered an option within GitHub Copilot CLI that prevents the computer from going to sleep during task execution, solving the problem of tasks being terminated prematurely due to inactivity timeouts.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledComputers nowadays have aggressive power settings to conserve energy.
In the days of AI and agents, a lot of times I give GitHub Copilot Cli a task and then walk away from the computer.
Based on my current configuration, the task would basically stop at 3 minutes in.
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