Agent skips $HOME/.copilot/ when searching for MCP/env config files
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### Describe the bug
When asked to locate a file like ado-mcp.env, the agent searched only the repo directory and then escalated to a drive-root scan
— skipping $HOME/.copilot/ entirely, despite the documentation explicitly listing it as a profile-level config directory.
The agent should apply file-type reasoning first (.env + ado-mcp prefix → MCP config → ~/.copilot/), check the documented lookup
order (repo → repo root → $HOME/.copilot/), and only ask the user if all three fail — never scan from drive root.
This is a tool-first, reasoning-last anti-pattern that should be corrected in the agent's lookup heuristics.
[bug-conversation.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/26563816/bug-conversation.txt)
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.21.
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. save ado mcp details in ~/.copilot/ado-mcp.env
2. go to your repo folder
3. ask: create pull request
### Expected behavior
it should have look into ~/.copilot folder for env file
### Additional context
Operating system: windows 11
processor : x86_64
terminal: windows terminal
bash: git bash
Guia de contribuição
Direção de pesquisa
Start by reproducing the lookup from a repository on Windows 11 with ~/.copilot/ado-mcp.env present, and review the attached bug-conversation.txt alongside the documented lookup order. Done means the agent checks the repository, repository root, and $HOME/.copilot/ before asking the user, without escalating to a drive-root scan.
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Avaliação
- Stack de tecnologia
- shell
- Domínio
- cli, tooling
- Tipo de issue
- Bug
- Dificuldade
- 4/5
- Tempo estimado
- 3-5 dias
- Status de atividade
- Pouca atividade
- Clareza
- Razoavelmente clara
- Facilidade para iniciantes
- 45/100