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Copilot CLI uses Unix-only commands on Windows

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### Describe the bug

While running on Windows PowerShell, Copilot piped output to `head -900`, a Unix command that does not exist in PowerShell. The command failed with: "The term 'head' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program." Copilot had access to the environment context indicating Windows_NT as the OS, yet still generated a Unix-style command. The equivalent PowerShell would be `Select-Object -First 900`

### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.36

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

Repro Steps:
1. Open Copilot CLI on a Windows machine running PowerShell 7
2. Provide a task that involves processing a large file (e.g., a 1.8MB
JSON file over 150 records
3. Ask Copilot to extract and display a subset of the data
4. Observe the generated shell command.

### Expected behavior

Copilot should detect the OS, Windows_NT is provided in environment, and use PowerShell commands. For example, to limit output to 900 lines, it should something along the lines of: `| Select-Object -First 900`

Instead, Copilot generated the command: `python -c "..." 2>&1 | head -900`

This failed with:"The term 'head' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program."

### Additional context

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Direção de pesquisa

Start at the Copilot CLI command-generation entry point and reproduce the reported task in Windows PowerShell 7. Check how the Windows_NT environment context influences generated shell commands. Done means commands requiring output limiting use a PowerShell-compatible approach instead of `head`, with the reported reproduction no longer failing.

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Avaliação

Stack de tecnologia
powershell, shell
Domínio
cli, operating-systems
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

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