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Copilot skipping intermediate steps

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Description

### Describe the bug

Version 0.0.354 · Commit 076bd172b
Claude Sonnet 4.5

Copilot keeps skipping intermediate steps. Haven't seen this before.

Example of skipping two intermediate steps:

```
✓ $ git status -s
↪ 1 line...

○ $ git add CHANGELOG.md && git commit --amend --no-edit

○ $ cat > .dev/onboarding/onboarding-NEXT.md << 'EOF'
# Onboarding for Next AI

**Prepared**: 2025-11-11 22:05 UTC
**For**: Next session ...

○ $ make session-wrap

------------------------------------------------
| make session-wrap
------------------------------------------------

Do you want to run this command?
Yes) ...
...
```

In the example above copilot skipped the `git add CHANGELOG.md...` and the `cat > .dev/onboarding/onboarding-NEXT.md` intermediary steps and went directly to `make session-wrap`.

This weird behaviour continued to happen during a session.

This is a huge problem when doing git workflows. It creates a huge git mess. It executes git commands that it shouldn't., and because it tries to fix itself, it makes even things worse because it continues to skip steps. After a few iterations of trying to fix git problems copilot creates total git chaos. It tantamounts to executing git commands at random.

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