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Support model discovery and in-session switching for BYOM providers

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### 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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Direzione di ricerca

La issue indica i punti di ingresso della configurazione COPILOT_MODEL, COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL e COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY e il comando copilot; inizia tracciando il modo in cui questi valori alimentano l’attuale selettore dei modelli e la sessione. Il lavoro è completato quando il selettore può mostrare modelli Vertex AI/BYOM autorizzati, passare dall’uno all’altro senza riavviare, mantenere le impostazioni dell’endpoint e dell’autenticazione e aggiornare i token gcloud/ADC a breve durata.

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Valutazione

Stack tecnologico
google-cloud, powershell
Ambito
api, cli, cloud
Tipo di issue
Funzionalità
Difficoltà
5/5
Tempo stimato
Più di una settimana
Stato di attività
Tranquilla
Chiarezza
Abbastanza chiara
Idoneità per principianti
45/100

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