Support model discovery and in-session switching for BYOM providers
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Descripción
### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Copilot CLI's BYOM configuration currently requires a single `COPILOT_MODEL` value. When using Google Vertex AI through its OpenAI-compatible endpoint and `gcloud` authentication, users must restart Copilot CLI to change models.
This is a gap in the model-selection experience: a Copilot subscription exposes multiple GitHub-hosted models through the model picker, but BYOM is effectively one provider/model per process. A subscription-based model experience should support many available models behind one provider configuration (many-to-one), rather than requiring a separate CLI process for each model (one-to-one).
Think BYOMS (Bring your own model subscription) instead of a single BYOM.
### Proposed solution
Support model discovery and model selection for BYOM providers, including Vertex AI:
- Discover models exposed by the configured provider, or allow a provider-specific model catalog/configuration.
- Show available BYOM models in the same model picker used for GitHub-hosted models.
- Allow switching models during a Copilot CLI session without restarting the CLI.
- Preserve provider-level authentication and endpoint settings while changing only the selected model.
- Support short-lived Google OAuth access tokens from `gcloud`/ADC without requiring users to manually restart the CLI when a token refresh is needed.
For Vertex AI, this should work with the OpenAI-compatible endpoint and Google Cloud authentication, while respecting the models enabled and authorized for the user's project and region.
### Example prompts or workflows
```powershell
copilot
# Model picker shows GitHub models plus authorized Vertex AI models.
# Selecting a different model changes the active BYOM model in the current session.
```
### Additional context
Current workaround:
```powershell
$env:COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL = "https://LOCATION-aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT/locations/LOCATION/endpoints/openapi"
$env:COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY = gcloud auth print-access-token
$env:COPILOT_MODEL = "google/gemini-2.5-flash"
copilot
```
Changing `COPILOT_MODEL` requires restarting Copilot CLI. Related issue: #3399 (custom headers for BYOK).
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Línea de trabajo
El issue nombra los puntos de entrada de configuración COPILOT_MODEL, COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL y COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY, así como el comando copilot; empieza por rastrear cómo esos valores llegan al selector de modelos y a la sesión actuales. Se considera terminado cuando el selector pueda mostrar modelos de Vertex AI/BYOM autorizados, cambiar entre ellos sin reiniciar, conservar la configuración del endpoint y la autenticación, y actualizar los tokens de corta duración de gcloud/ADC.
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Evaluación
- Stack tecnológico
- google-cloud, powershell
- Área
- api, cli, cloud
- Tipo de issue
- Nueva funcionalidad
- Dificultad
- 5/5
- Tiempo estimado
- Más de una semana
- Estado de actividad
- Tranquilo
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 45/100