The CLI renews short-lived access tokens automatically for terminal, SSH, editor and Orca connections.
- Sign in again after 14 days without use or 30 days after sign-in, whichever comes first. Logging out ends the session. Routine access-token expiry no longer requires repeated sign-ins.
- Read Sign-in and sessions for the first steps. GitHub holds the detailed credential storage and renewal reference. The published release is release-2026-11-06-005258.