Copilot CLI: Hooks that don’t hang the babysitter

What changed

Leave Copilot CLI’s Autopilot running on its own, and a hook’s “ask” no longer stalls it on a permission dialog nobody is watching.

Autopilot lets Copilot CLI work through a task without you. Hooks are small rules that run at set moments, for example right before a tool runs (a preToolUse hook). When such a hook answered “ask”, Autopilot used to stop on a permission dialog that nobody was watching.

Now it treats that “ask” as a no and keeps going.

What else changed across three releases

• Custom agents can carry their own hooks (agent-scoped declarative hooks), and command hooks now complete reliably.
• /add-dir gives the sandbox access to another folder for the current session.
• Interactive sandbox settings suggest likely secrets in your environment and let you add masking before you save.
• The timeline shows who made each permission decision: you, Assisted Permissions, policy, or the unattended fallback.
• Gemini 4 Argon is supported. In /ask, Ctrl+E expands an answer and Ctrl+Y copies all of it.

What to do

If you run Autopilot with a preToolUse hook that can answer “ask”, expect those tool calls to be denied instead of paused. The timeline tells you which decisions came from the unattended fallback.