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Assign to agent seems to be limited for 1 assignment per issue, I would like to extend it to multiple assignments so agent can work on multiple repos. #22897
Description
It seems we have a limitation when assigning an issue more than once to an agent, in our company we usually have one issue in a "global" repository that can be linked to multiple repositories. So for example, we have one global repo where we create our Github issues and two separate repositories for the iOS app and android app.
When we try to assign copilot to work on the global issue for both repositories we receive the error copilot is already assigned to issue XXXX.
It seems we can only assign copilot once for one issue.
So basically what I'm asking for is multi platform (multi repo) support for copilot assignments.
I'm sharing the logs in the screenshot below
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pelikhan commentedon Mar 25, 2026
could you try to load our authoring agent and ask it the same question? it should be able to update your aw.md file.
camposbrunocampos commentedon Mar 25, 2026
@pelikhan sorry for the dumb question, but how do I load your authoring agent, do you want me to fork this repo and ask some LLM to do this change on my behalf?
camposbrunocampos commentedon Mar 25, 2026
Also I can't correlate aw.md file to any file existent on this project
pelikhan commentedon Mar 26, 2026
Here is a guide https://github.github.com/gh-aw/troubleshooting/debugging/#_top
camposbrunocampos commentedon Mar 26, 2026
@pelikhan According to my debug session, this is a limitation in assign_to_agent.cjs
camposbrunocampos commentedon Mar 30, 2026
@pelikhan any thoughts?
pelikhan commentedon Apr 23, 2026
@copilot implement multi repo copilot assignment support