413 Request Entity Too Large

[doggy8088]

When I use the Copilot SDK, I often encounter the following error message:

SDK error: Model call failed: "413 413 Request Entity Too Large\n" (Request ID: FF0F:3AD4C8:3D04A72:4C4DBC6:696E262E)

May I ask what the issue is?

[SteveSandersonMS]

It might be that you are including a huge amount of extra context from MCP tools or custom instructions.

Can you post repro code? Thanks.

[doggy8088]

I had Copilot read the images in a folder—each one about 5MB—asking it to process them one by one. But after reading maybe a dozen or so images, this error pops up every time.

[SteveSandersonMS]

@doggy8088 Thanks for the info. Moving this issue to the copilot-cli issue as it would need to be addressed in that layer (or even lower).

[doggy8088]

@SteveSandersonMS Here is my code: https://github.com/doggy8088/photo-agent

Here is a simple log of my app. I processed 7 images. The last image shows this error.

Describing img (1).JPG...
Describing img (2).JPG...
Describing img (3).JPG...
Describing img (4).JPG...
Describing img (5).JPG...
Describing img (6).JPG...
Describing img (7).JPG...
Failed to run photo agent: Error: {"message":"failed to parse request","code":""}
    at t.runAgenticLoop (file:///C:/Users/user/.copilot/pkg/universal/0.0.384/index.js:2386:22481)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:103:5)
    at async t.send (file:///C:/Users/user/.copilot/pkg/universal/0.0.384/index.js:2386:2199)

I expect Copilot SDK or Copilot CLI to automatically retry failed requests for me.

[RyanHecht]

We now retry these requests -- let us know if you still encounter these problems on the latest version!