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Repeated 'unknown option --no-warnings' errors in output #1399

@bradygaster

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@bradygaster

Problem

During normal Copilot CLI agent sessions, the following error appears repeatedly in the terminal output:

error: unknown option '--no-warnings'

Try 'copilot --help' for more information.
error: unknown option '--no-warnings'

Try 'copilot --help' for more information.
error: unknown option '--no-warnings'

Try 'copilot --help' for more information.
error: unknown option '--no-warnings'

These appear unprompted — the user is not passing --no-warnings directly. Something internal to the CLI or its agent/task spawning infrastructure is passing this flag and it's not being recognized.

Expected Behavior

No error output. If --no-warnings is being passed internally (e.g., to suppress Node.js warnings), it should either:

  1. Be passed to the correct target (e.g., NODE_OPTIONS=--no-warnings for Node.js), or
  2. Be handled silently if the flag isn't supported

Environment

  • OS: Windows 11
  • Copilot CLI version: 0.0.407-1
  • Occurs during agent task spawning (background mode with task tool)
  • Appears multiple times per session, seemingly once per sub-agent spawn

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