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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_

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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.

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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
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