A command that sends an investigation, requested fix, or follow-up rescue task to a Copilot rescue subagent, meaning a separate helper agent.

Use it when a coding task needs investigation or an explicit fix through the Copilot rescue agent. The command can wait for the result or run it in the background.

It delegates rescue work and supports foreground, background, model, effort, resume, and fresh-run options.

rescue — Command for coding agents by wagnersza: A command that sends an investigation, requested fix, or…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add commands/wagnersza/copilot-plugin-cc/rescue

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wagnersza/copilot-plugin-cc

Or install copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 813 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00020	$0.00813
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00407
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00163
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00081

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0f911c1b6add, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rescue scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

rescue — 97% identical, 16 lines differ
rescue — 84% identical, 44 lines differ

plugins/copilot/commands/rescue.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Route this request to the copilot:copilot-rescue subagent. The final user-visible response must be Copilot's output verbatim.

Raw user request: $ARGUMENTS

Execution mode:

If the request includes --background, run the copilot:copilot-rescue subagent in the background.
If the request includes --wait, run the copilot:copilot-rescue subagent in the foreground.
If neither flag is present, default to foreground.
--background and --wait are execution flags for Claude Code. Do not forward them to task, and do not treat them as part of the natural-language task text.
--model and --effort are runtime-selection flags. Preserve them for the forwarded task call, but do not treat them as part of the natural-language task text.
If the request includes --resume, do not ask whether to continue. The user already chose.
If the request includes --fresh, do not ask whether to continue. The user already chose.
Otherwise, before starting Copilot, check for a resumable rescue thread from this Claude session by running:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/copilot-companion.mjs" task-resume-candidate --json

If that helper reports available: true, use AskUserQuestion exactly once to ask whether to continue the current Copilot thread or start a new one.
The two choices must be:
- Continue current Copilot thread
- Start a new Copilot thread
If the user is clearly giving a follow-up instruction such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", "apply the top fix", or "dig deeper", put Continue current Copilot thread (Recommended) first.
Otherwise put Start a new Copilot thread (Recommended) first.
If the user chooses continue, add --resume before routing to the subagent.
If the user chooses a new thread, add --fresh before routing to the subagent.
If the helper reports available: false, do not ask. Route normally.

Operating rules:

The subagent is a thin forwarder only. It should use one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/copilot-companion.mjs" task ... and return that command's stdout as-is.
Return the Copilot companion stdout verbatim to the user.
Do not paraphrase, summarize, rewrite, or add commentary before or after it.
Do not ask the subagent to inspect files, monitor progress, poll /copilot:status, fetch /copilot:result, call /copilot:cancel, summarize output, or do follow-up work of its own.
Leave --effort unset unless the user explicitly asks for a specific reasoning effort.
Leave the model unset unless the user explicitly asks for one. If they ask for spark, map it to gpt-5.3-codex.
Leave --resume and --fresh in the forwarded request. The subagent handles that routing when it builds the task command.
If the helper reports that Copilot is missing or unauthenticated, stop and tell the user to run /copilot:setup.
If the user did not supply a request, ask what Copilot should investigate or fix.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 0f911c1b6add

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rescue is a command published in the GitHub repository wagnersza/copilot-plugin-cc (45 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Building agents

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Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

Copies of this mod

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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