Document Esc key behavior fix for interactive prompt cancellation

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Pressing Esc while editing the "No, and tell Copilot what to do differently" text input currently auto-selects "No", preventing users from returning to the option picker.

Changes

• Added changelog entry for v0.0.385 documenting the fix: Esc now returns to option picker instead of auto-selecting "No"

Note

This repository contains distribution files only. The actual implementation change is tracked separately in the internal source repository.

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From c2a7b3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" 198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:24:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initial plan

From 03dfa47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" 198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:28:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Document Esc key behavior fix for interactive prompts in
changelog

Co-authored-by: RyanHecht 5344055+RyanHecht@users.noreply.github.com

changelog.md | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 3fb9351..de617aa 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.0.385 - TBD
+
+- Fixed Esc key behavior in interactive prompts: pressing Esc while editing "No, and tell Copilot what to do differently" message now returns to option picker instead of auto-selecting "No"
+

0.0.384 - 2026-01-16

• Add & prefix shortcut for delegating prompts to run in background (equivalent to /delegate)