Getting "Unauthorized: token expired" during conversation

[grahamcropley]

Description

During normal interaction while the agent is working / responding, it will occasionally abruptly stop with a red bordered message that just says "Unauthorized: unauthorised: token expired". I'm using Github Copilot as the provider, and seen it happen on Claude-Sonnet-4.5 for certain.

All I have to do is say "carry on" or similar, and it continues fine.

Only observed this in the last couple of days, I believe it only started since around the version that introduced support for GPT-5.1-codex via Githob Copilot (i.e., the API endpoint change)... nnot that I'm using that model at the moment.... hope that helps?!

I appreciate this is intermittent, perhaps only 2-3 times today of pretty much constant use. Is there any useful settings or command line parameters that I could use, to help catch some details when/if it happens again?

OpenCode version

1.0.126

Steps to reproduce

Talk to the agent. I can't say if there is any specific trigger, it has happened while delegating to a sub-agent as well as a straight forward single agent interaction.

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Operating System

Windows 11 > WSL 2 > Ubuntu 24.04

Terminal

Windows Terminal WSL

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• #2758: Copilot / gpt-5-codex 'model gpt-5-codex is not accessible via the /chat/completions endpoint' - Relates to the recent API endpoint changes mentioned as a potential cause
• #3287: Opencode Github Agent with GitHub Copilot provider Throw AI_APICallError: Bad Request - Similar API errors during Copilot provider operations
• #2764: Session turns keeps resulting in AI_APICallError: Bad Request - Similar intermittent errors during agent conversation turns
• #2617: AI_APICallError: Forbidden with Github Copilot - Related authentication/authorization errors with Copilot provider

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

[rekram1-node]

Hm any chance you are using copilot on multiple platforms at the same time (ex: vscode + opencode same time)? I heard some people say that the copilot api sometimes invalidates other refresh tokens or something

[rekram1-node]

@grahamcropley have you tried opencode auth login and then doing copilot again?

[rekram1-node]

does it automatically recover? Or how did you resolve it

[moddi3]

i'm experiencing the same issue. it seems to have started around the 1.120–1.122 updates.

i'm using opencode and sometimes copilot in vscode for small fixes. however, i can't say there's a direct connection between using copilot in vscode and the opencode copilot session expiring. if there is a relation, it's not immediate — the opencode session does not expire right after i use copilot in vscode.

[rekram1-node]

I don't know if it is related to any recent updates, I talked to several people in discord who seemed to say this has always been a thing, annoyingly no one opened issues recently lol

[moddi3]

i can assure you this only started recently. I’ve been using the copilot provider the entire time I’ve used opencode, and until now it was fine.

at the moment, though, I have to log in again every 20–30 minutes. For example, just now I was waiting for copilot/opus 4.5 to respond, asked it one more question right after, and immediately got an “unauthorized” error.

[moddi3]

when I first started using opencode, I logged in once and didn’t have to touch auth again until these recent issues started ☹️ and i also don't know if it related to some updates, maybe this is just a coincidence that i noticed it after 1.120

[rekram1-node]

Hm this is very strange, I use copilot exclusively in opencode and haven't had to login since the first time I did

[rekram1-node]

Are you sure you have to reauth everytime? You can't send followups? Other people said it would handle it after sending a followup automatically

[moddi3]

i think i didn't try to send follow ups when this issue occurs, i just log in again strange that i didnt tried that, will try and write to you, thank yo

[moddi3]

i cant send follow ups when this issue happens

[moddi3]

It no longer logs me out, since yesterday evening, maybe it is github's issue? i did not update opencode all this time

[grahamcropley]

@rekram1-node thank you for the followups.

1. Not actively using github copilot in multiple places, but Visual Studio was open, I wasn't interacting with Github Copilot there.
2. yes, I tried that, it did happen again afterwards (not straight away)
3. it doesn't 'automatically' recover, but all I have to do is just send a message, I say something like 'carry on', and it does.

I can confirm as @moddi3 mentioned, this didn't occur to me until recently, and I've been working on this specific project for 2+ months, hours and hours a day inside opencode.

@moddi3 whereas I can send follow ups, and it immediately continues where it left off.

I've actually had a couple of days without touching it, but I'll keep an eye out for any more occurrences on the latest versions.

[grahamcropley]

Happened again, v1.0.133 - only using Github Copilot Claude Opus 4.5 - no delegation happening, just a single agent. Not using any other instances of Github Copilot anywhere.

And simply prompting it again, continues without missing a beat. (other that that 'token expired' one)