Use with agents

Use ctx with Copilot CLI

Import Copilot CLI session-state history and search it from ctx.

Install ctx on the machine where Copilot CLI keeps local session state:

curl -fsSL https://ctx.rs/install | sh

See Install for setup and data-root details.

ctx can import supported Copilot CLI session-state history when it exists locally. After import, any shell-capable agent can search those sessions through ctx.

Import Copilot CLI history

ctx setup
ctx import --provider copilot-cli
ctx sources --json

ctx sources --json reports whether Copilot CLI history is available on this machine.

Search Copilot CLI history

ctx search "release script failure" --provider copilot-cli --json
ctx show event <ctx-event-id> --window 3
ctx show session <ctx-session-id> --mode lite

Use --provider copilot-cli for Copilot-specific history. Drop the provider filter when the earlier work may have happened in another supported agent.

Prompt an agent

Search ctx for prior Copilot CLI sessions related to this task. Inspect the best hit with `ctx show event` or `ctx show session`, then cite the ctx ID before using the retrieved history.

If no relevant Copilot CLI history appears, continue from the current repository state and say that ctx did not return a useful prior session.