Flight Log / dotnet/aspire #9458

Graceful error handling for offline scenarios in 'aspire new' and 'aspire add' commands — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight

The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in dotnet/aspire on May 22, 2025; merged clean in 7.1 h, merged by @davidfowl: +195 −0, 9 files, 6 reviews.

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+195 −0
Files
9
Commits
2
Reviews
6
To merge
7.1 h
Task
fix

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GitHub Copilot fixed an unhandled exception in dotnet/aspire. Running aspire new or aspire add offline prompted users to pick templates or packages that were unavailable. The change spans nine files, adds 195 lines, and uses two commits. It merged after 7.07 hours with no change requests. A reviewer wrote: "I think this is good to go."

From the pull request description

## Problem When running the `aspire new` or `aspire add` commands without an internet connection, the CLI attempts to prompt the user to select from a list of available template versions or packages. Since no templates/packages are available offline, this results in an unhandled exception (`System.…

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  1. —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
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  6. May 22, 2025labeledgithub-actions[bot]
  7. May 22, 2025mergeddavidfowl
  8. May 22, 2025closeddavidfowl

Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, dotnet/aspire#9458, record updated Nov 4, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/dotnet/aspire/9458/

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