Background task agents silently substitute requested model without warning
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Descripción
### Describe the bug
When launching a background agent via the task tool with an explicit model parameter, the agent silently substitutes
a different model and completes without any indication of the substitution — until you inspect the model: field in
the result metadata.
Environment: GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.44, Windows
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.44
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch a background agent with model: "claude-opus-4.7" or model: "gpt-5.5" or model: "gpt-5.3-codex", by prompting "do a tri-model review using claude opus 4.7, gpt 5.5 and gpt 5.3 codex" with claude sonnet as the active model.
2. Agent completes with status: idle
3. Read result — model: claude-sonnet-4.6 appears in the metadata, not the requested model
Actual behaviour:
Agent silently downgrades to claude-sonnet-4.6 and returns a result. No warning, no error, nothing in the output
indicating the substitution occurred. The substitution is only discoverable by reading the raw metadata line model:
in the agent result.
Why this matters:
Workflows that depend on specific model capabilities (e.g., multi-model review loops requiring claude-opus-4.7,
gpt-5.5, and gpt-5.3-codex for independent perspectives) are silently invalidated. The caller believes they got
three independent reviews when in fact two were the same model. gpt-5.3-codex appeared to work correctly; it was
claude-opus-4.7 and gpt-5.5 that substituted.
### Expected behavior
Either:
- Use the requested model, or
- Fail with a clear error: "Model 'claude-opus-4.7' is not available in this environment" so the caller can decide
how to proceed
### Additional context
_No response_
Guía de contribución
Línea de trabajo
Empieza reproduciendo la tarea en segundo plano con un modelo explícito como claude-opus-4.7 o gpt-5.5 y, después, inspecciona los metadatos del resultado, donde se muestra el modelo sustituido. Sigue la selección de modelo de la herramienta de tareas y haz que la ejecución use el modelo solicitado o informe de que no está disponible; verifica que ya no se produzcan sustituciones silenciosas.
Escrito por el modelo de indexación a partir del texto del issue.
Evaluación
- Stack tecnológico
- shell
- Área
- ai, cli
- Tipo de issue
- Error
- Dificultad
- 3/5
- Tiempo estimado
- 1-2 días
- Estado de actividad
- Tranquilo
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 52/100