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Dynamic context injection in Skills (`!command` placeholder)

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### Feature request for product/service

GitHub Copilot CLI

### Describe the request

Add **dynamic context injection** to Agent Skills (`SKILL.md`) in GitHub Copilot CLI.

I’m proposing the !`<command>` command placeholder inside the skill body. When the skill is invoked, Copilot CLI would run the shell command locally **before** sending the skill content to the model, then replace the placeholder with the command’s stdout.

That would let skills combine live data + instructions in a single turn, instead of asking the agent to make a separate shell call at runtime.

### Example

```md
---
name: summarize-changes
description: Summarize uncommitted changes and flag risks
---

## Current changes

!`git diff HEAD`

## Instructions

Summarize the changes above in 2–3 bullets and list risks.
If the diff is empty, say there are no uncommitted changes.
```

### Why this matters

Today, skills that depend on live state usually have to tell the agent to run shell commands itself during the interaction. That is slower, uses extra tokens, and is less reliable — the agent may skip the command, choose the wrong one, or reason from stale file context instead of actual output.

With injection, repeatable workflows like PR review, commit summaries, and pre-merge checks become self-bootstrapping: the skill gathers facts first, then the model reasons over them.

### Use cases

- Branch / PR review: `!`git diff master...HEAD``, `!`gh pr diff``
- Commit helper: `!`git diff --staged``
- Pre-ship checks: test output, lint output, or other command results

### Suggested safeguards

- Respect existing shell-execution policies / hooks
- Make command injection opt-in per skill and/or configurable globally
- Cap or truncate large stdout
- Surface command failures clearly when the injected command fails

### Prior art

Claude Code already ships this pattern as part of the Agent Skills standard extension: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills#inject-dynamic-context

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Direção de pesquisa

Comece rastreando a invocação de Agent Skills (SKILL.md) e as políticas ou hooks existentes para execução de shell no GitHub Copilot CLI. Revise a documentação vinculada do Claude Code sobre contexto dinâmico para o comportamento proposto dos placeholders e determine como as salvaguardas, os limites de saída e as falhas de comandos devem funcionar. Está concluído quando um skill puder expandir !`command` a partir do stdout local antes que seu conteúdo seja enviado ao modelo, com as proteções de política indicadas.

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Avaliação

Stack de tecnologia
shell
Domínio
cli
Tipo de issue
Funcionalidade
Dificuldade
5/5
Tempo estimado
Mais de uma semana
Status de atividade
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Facilidade para iniciantes
45/100

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