
Copilot Retried Into GitHub's Outage. Cap Your Agents.
GitHub's CTO says a client-side retry loop in Copilot increased traffic during recovery from the August 17 outage, which ran 7 hours 47 minutes after a Central US data center component failed to scale with peak throughput. GitHub is now adding retry budgets across service-to-service calls. Your agent fleet has none.
August 22, 2026 · 15 min read