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Output produced exceeding its own read limits

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Description

### Describe the bug

Copilot generated python commands that printed >150 items from a json with a bunch of fields. This caused output to be redirected to a temp file which then required 5 additional read calls to fully consume.

### Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.36

### Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Open Copilot CLI with a JSON file containing 100+ records.
2. Ask Copilot to extract and display a summary of all records.
3. Observe the Python command Copilot generates.
4. Check whether the output exceeds the tool's display limit.

### Expected behavior

Copilot should estimate the output size before generating the command. For numerous (150+ json objects) copilot should have the brains to paginate

### Additional context

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