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Feature: enterprise/org server-managed settings (incl. `env`) for the local Copilot CLI

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Descripción

### Problem
Org admins have no way to centrally push configuration — especially environment variables — to developers' **local** Copilot CLI installs. Today the only org-managed env mechanism is **Agents/Codespaces secrets**, which only reach GitHub-hosted **cloud** environments. For the local CLI (incl. VS Code dev containers on Colima/Lima/Podman), the only options are MDM-placed files or per-host provisioning — neither of which reaches into an unmanaged container.

### Request
A server-delivered, org/enterprise-managed settings layer for the local Copilot CLI — fetched at auth and refreshed periodically, taking precedence over user/repo settings — that can set a managed `env` block, e.g.:

```jsonc
// org-managed settings (delivered over the network, not a local file)
{ "env": { "MY_ORG_CONFIG_VALUE": "…" } }
```

These vars would apply to CLI sessions (and ideally subprocesses/plugin hooks), so org-distributed plugins/tools can pick up required config with **no MDM and no per-machine provisioning**.

### Why existing mechanisms don't cover it
- **Agents/Codespaces secrets** → cloud agent / Codespaces only; never reach the local CLI.
- **Org/enterprise policies** (#1971) → governance (enable/disable, model & MCP allowlists), not arbitrary config/secret delivery.
- **`.env` loading** (#2879) → local files the developer manages, not org-pushed.

### Prior art
Claude Code ships exactly this as **server-managed settings** (admin console → delivered at auth, refreshed hourly, reaches inside containers, supports an `env` block) — see code.claude.com/docs server-managed-settings. Enterprise-managed *models* already landed for Copilot CLI (#3730), so an enterprise-managed *settings/env* layer is a natural extension. Would also complement the Claude-parity work in #2471.

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Línea de trabajo

No se nombran archivos de implementación ni pruebas. Empieza revisando el trabajo existente sobre enterprise-managed models en #3730 y las issues relacionadas de configuración, políticas y .env (#1971 y #2879), y luego compara los antecedentes citados de server-managed-settings; se considera terminado cuando exista un diseño acordado para la entrega autenticada, la actualización, la precedencia y el comportamiento del env gestionado.

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Área
authentication, cli, cloud
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Nueva funcionalidad
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5/5
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Más de una semana
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Tranquilo
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Bastante claro
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35/100

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