Agent-created child sessions ignore a preset plugin-provided custom agent and fall back to Default agent
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### Summary
When an **agent** creates a child session and presets its agent (via the session-creation tool that accepts an `agent` parameter), a **plugin-provided custom agent** is not applied. The new session silently starts on **Default agent** instead. Manually selecting the same agent from the session's agent dropdown works fine, so the agent itself is valid and loadable — only the agent-created "start this session in agent X" path fails for plugin-contributed agents.
### Environment
- GitHub Copilot app (agent-native desktop), Windows
- App version: `1.0.21`
- Custom agent provided by an **installed plugin** (appears as a selectable entry in the agent picker)
### Steps to reproduce
1. Install a plugin that contributes a user-invocable custom agent (the agent shows up in the agent dropdown).
2. Have an agent create a child session and set the preset agent to that plugin agent (the `agent` field on the session-creation / kickoff call).
3. Let the session start (with or without a kickoff prompt).
4. Open the created session and check its agent dropdown.
### Expected
The created session starts bound to the specified plugin-provided agent (dropdown shows that agent; the session runs under that agent's persona/workflow).
### Actual
The session starts on **Default agent**. The preset agent is silently ignored — no error or warning is surfaced. The kickoff prompt (if any) runs under the Default agent instead of the intended one.
### What I tried (identifier is not the problem)
I attempted the preset with three identifier forms; all three resulted in Default agent:
1. Bare agent name — ``
2. Plugin-qualified — `:`
3. File-basename-qualified — `:.agent`
I verified the identifier is correct:
- The plugin's `plugin.json` `name` matches the namespace used.
- The agent's frontmatter `name` matches the label shown in the agent picker.
- The agent is present and selectable in the UI dropdown, and **manually selecting it works**.
This points to the agent-created preset path not resolving/applying **plugin-contributed** agents (built-in/workspace custom agents may behave differently), rather than a wrong identifier.
### Impact
A workflow that has an agent spin up child sessions preset to a specific plugin agent can't work — every session must have its agent selected by hand in the UI, defeating unattended/parallel session orchestration. Silent fallback to Default also means automated runs can appear to "work" while actually executing under the wrong agent, producing misleading results.
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Direzione di ricerca
Inizia tracciando il parametro agent della chiamata di creazione della sessione o di kickoff e confronta il relativo percorso di risoluzione con quello del menu a discesa agent, usando i passaggi per la riproduzione con un agent fornito da un plugin. Il lavoro è completato quando una sessione figlia creata con l'agent del plugin si apre con quell'agent selezionato ed esegue sotto di esso il prompt di kickoff, invece di ricadere silenziosamente su Default.
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Valutazione
- Stack tecnologico
- github
- Ambito
- ai, desktop
- Tipo di issue
- Bug
- Difficoltà
- 4/5
- Tempo stimato
- 3-5 giorni
- Stato di attività
- Tranquilla
- Chiarezza
- Abbastanza chiara
- Idoneità per principianti
- 55/100