Restarting actions (update, experimental toggles) don't preserve session

[333fred]

Describe the bug

When I start Copilot CLI, and perform an action that restarts the app (such as update or toggling experimental mode) it does not restart correctly, and gives an error message that the session ID cannot be found:

Error: No session, task, or name matched 'b490e4ae-7edc-4d79-bfb0-48a03c10084f'.

To resume by session or task ID:  copilot --resume=<id>
To resume by name:                copilot --resume=<name>
To name a new session:            copilot --name=<name>
To pick from existing sessions:   copilot --resume

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.51-2

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Type copilot to start the cli
2. /experimental on (or off if you already have it on)

Expected behavior

Copilot CLI restarts correctly enabling experimental.

What actually happens is the error I listed above.

Additional context

Logs from the relaunch:

2026-05-20T18:32:29.847Z [DEBUG] Sending telemetry event: copilot-cli/extension.activate
2026-05-20T18:32:29.848Z [INFO] Shell completions: no supported shell detected, skipping
2026-05-20T18:32:29.849Z [DEBUG] OpenTelemetry not enabled (resolveOtelConfig returned null)
2026-05-20T18:32:29.881Z [DEBUG] No persisted remote state for session 796be1bf-039a-4cfa-89fb-6dc690047291
2026-05-20T18:32:30.090Z [INFO] Session indexing debug: SESSION_INDEXING=true, repository=333fred/roslyn
2026-05-20T18:32:30.304Z [DEBUG] ExP request: GET https://telemetry.enterprise.githubcopilot.com/telemetry?tas-endpoint=githubdevdiv
2026-05-20T18:32:30.304Z [DEBUG] ExP headers: {"User-Agent":"copilot-cli","X-ExP-SDK-Version":"1","X-VSCode-ExtensionName":"CopilotCLI","X-MSEdge-ClientId":"<redacted>","x-exp-parameters":"copilottrackingid=,github_copilotcli<redacted>_cliversion=1.0.51.2,github_copilotcli_prerelease=1,github_copilotcli_audience=microsoft,github_copilotcli_experimentationoptin=0,extensionname=CopilotCLI,github_copilotcli_firstlaunchat=1773187200,github_copilotcli_copilotplan=enterprise"}
2026-05-20T18:32:30.569Z [DEBUG] Sending telemetry event: copilot-cli/cli.telemetry (kind: exp_context_fetch)
2026-05-20T18:32:30.721Z [ERROR] Request to Copilot Task API at https://api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com/agents/tasks/796be1bf-039a-4cfa-89fb-6dc690047291 failed with status 404 (request ID: A8EA:2636CF:65A2510:6D113F7:6A0DFE3E), body: {"documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest","message":"not found"}

2026-05-20T18:32:31.351Z [INFO] No update needed, current version is 1.0.51-2, fetched latest release is v1.0.51-2
2026-05-20T18:32:32.942Z [DEBUG] Fetched 80 remote sessions