🐛🧑💻 - Setup crash on repository with no issues #319
Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
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Which platforms are affected?
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Description
The setup command crashes on repositories with no issues cause it is not possible to get the existing labels.
Reproducing the issue
Execute copilot setup
copilot Version
master
Relevant Log Output
🔍 Checking we are inside a git repository...
✅ Git repository detected.
🔗 Resolving repository (owner/repo)...
📦 Repository: vypdev/geckocv
⚙️ Running initial setup (labels, issue types, access)...
GitHub Action: starting main run.
Error reading issue #1 description: HttpError: Not Found - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#get-an-issue
/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:7044
const error = new import_request_error.RequestError(toErrorMessage(data), status, {
^
RequestError [HttpError]: Not Found - https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/labels#list-labels-for-an-issue
at /Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:7044:21
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async IssueRepository.getLabels (/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:50616:38)
at async Execution.setup (/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:48179:46)
at async mainRun (/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:46698:5)
at async runLocalAction (/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:47192:21)
at async Command.<anonymous> (/Users/efraespada/Development/copilot/build/cli/index.js:47705:5) {
status: 404,
response: {
url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/vypdev/geckocv/issues/1/labels',
status: 404,
headers: {
'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
'content-encoding': 'gzip',
'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
date: 'Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:28:52 GMT',
'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
server: 'github.com',
'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With',
'x-accepted-github-permissions': 'issues=read; pull_requests=read',
'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
'x-frame-options': 'deny',
'x-github-api-version-selected': '2022-11-28',
'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
'x-github-request-id': '304A:540E1:1852B32:1650CD3:69A10164',
'x-ratelimit-limit': '5000',
'x-ratelimit-remaining': '4927',
'x-ratelimit-reset': '1772160645',
'x-ratelimit-resource': 'core',
'x-ratelimit-used': '73',
'x-xss-protection': '0'
},
data: {
message: 'Not Found',
documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/labels#list-labels-for-an-issue',
status: '404'
}
},
request: {
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/vypdev/geckocv/issues/1/labels',
headers: {
accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
'user-agent': 'octokit-core.js/5.2.1 Node.js/20.20.0 (darwin; arm64)',
authorization: 'token [REDACTED]'
},
request: {
agent: Agent {
_events: [Object: null prototype] {
free: [Function (anonymous)],
newListener: [Function: maybeEnableKeylog]
},
_eventsCount: 2,
_maxListeners: undefined,
defaultPort: 443,
protocol: 'https:',
options: [Object: null prototype] {
keepAlive: false,
maxSockets: 100,
noDelay: true,
path: null
},
requests: [Object: null prototype] {},
sockets: [Object: null prototype] {},
freeSockets: [Object: null prototype] {},
keepAliveMsecs: 1000,
keepAlive: false,
maxSockets: 100,
maxFreeSockets: 256,
scheduling: 'lifo',
maxTotalSockets: Infinity,
totalSocketCount: 0,
maxCachedSessions: 100,
_sessionCache: { map: {}, list: [] },
[Symbol(shapeMode)]: false,
[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
},
fetch: [Function: proxyFetch],
hook: [Function: bound bound register]
}
}
}
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