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Copilot CLI Infinite Loop on Empty bash Tool Call

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Description

### Describe the bug

The Copilot CLI gets stuck when invoking a bash command with empty arguments. The command is invalid and results in an error, but instead of stopping, it repeatedly issues the same tool call over 5000 times until the process is eventually killed.
Specifically, the model keeps generating the following tool call with empty arguments:
```
{
"choices": [
{
"finish_reason": "length",
"message": {
"role": "assistant",
"tool_calls": [
{
"function": {
"arguments": "{}",
"name": "bash"
},
"id": "toolu_vrtx_01X5EZSmMahBSaU8p21MvQH8",
"type": "function"
}
]
}
}
],
"created": 1770869340,
"id": "msg_vrtx_012HHnioZgNQg77QVLyuDMJ8",
"usage": {
"completion_tokens": 16000,
"prompt_tokens": 32127,
"prompt_tokens_details": {
"cached_tokens": 31973
},
"total_tokens": 48127
},
"model": "claude-sonnet-4.5"
}
```

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### Affected version

0.0.407-1

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

_No response_

### Expected behavior

If the tool call is failure, shall llm correct it?

### Additional context

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