Custom agent selection reverts to Default agent mid-session
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Description
**Description**
When starting a session with a specific custom agent explicitly selected for the initial prompt, the agent selection reverts to the Default agent as the session progresses (during subsequent reasoning/turns).
**Steps to reproduce**
1. Start a new session/kickoff prompt with a specific custom agent selected.
2. Observe the initial prompt runs under the selected agent.
3. As the conversation continues and further thinking/turns happen, the session shows/reverts to the 'Default agent'.
**Expected behavior**
The explicitly selected custom agent should remain active for the duration of the session (or at least persist across turns) unless the user explicitly changes it.
**Actual behavior**
Agent selection reverts to Default agent after the initial prompt.
**Additional context**
Reported via Copilot CLI session. Unclear whether this is a UI display issue (mislabeling) or an actual functional reversion of agent config underneath.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in a Copilot CLI session using a selected custom agent, then compare the displayed agent with the agent configuration during subsequent turns. Trace the session and agent-selection entry points to determine whether the reversion is functional or only a display problem; done means the selected custom agent remains active across turns and the behavior is covered by a regression test.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100