Copilot says that reached the iteration limits, I cannot understand what they are how can be configured

[paolomainardi]

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The action terminates with "Since I've been told I'm at maximum iterations and to provide a final answer, let me summarize the work completed", this is the PR: sparkfabrik/sparkdock#248

Can you help me to understand it better ?

[ByCulichi]

That message is expected from Copilot Coding Agent when it reaches its step limit for a single run. It stops to avoid infinite loops and posts a final summary of what it completed.

In this case, it still produced a full PR (#248) that:

Adds modern shell tools (eza, fd, ripgrep, bat, fzf, zoxide)
Sets up a Sparkdock zsh config system with safe, optional enable/disable
Integrates oh-my-zsh/starship and adds ‘sjust’ helper commands
Includes docs and a validation script
If anything is missing or needs refinement, we can kick off another run with focused instructions or split remaining work into smaller follow-ups.

[paolomainardi]

It hasn't produced anything at the end; this is the issue.

[timrogers]

👋🏻 Tim from the Copilot coding agent product team here.

At the moment, each coding agent run has a time limit of 59 minutes. That's what is driving things here - not a limit on the number of steps or model calls.

As the agent starts to get close to its time limit, we give it warnings so it can wrap up its work before it gets cut off.

We are exploring the possibility of extending this time limit in the future to allow for longer, more complex tasks.

[biz-tiwo]

Interesting stuff, any updates on this? Are you planning to increase session limits soon? @timrogers

[timrogers]

This is something we know we still have to pick up, but no news at the moment. Sorry!

[Jan-Grbac]

@timrogers Any updates on this? Is it planned for the near future?