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Feature: Strongly type Python events

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Hi,

I was trying to build against the SDK in Python, and I got confused about which events carried what payloads. The Data class is a union of all possible data fields:

https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/blob/f7fd7577109d64e261456b16c49baa56258eae4e/python/copilot/generated/session_events.py#L1773

SessionEvent largely a pair of enum and Data with a long docstring:

https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/blob/f7fd7577109d64e261456b16c49baa56258eae4e/python/copilot/generated/session_events.py#L3229

Other bindings in dotnet, for example, strongly type the events, so you know what events carry what payloads:

https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/blob/f7fd7577109d64e261456b16c49baa56258eae4e/dotnet/src/Generated/SessionEvents.cs#L134

I think stronger type hinting on the Python side would help make the SDK easier to consume by catching classes of bugs at IDE/Pyright/agent coding time. It has precedent on the Claude Agent SDK, which does adopt this pattern for its message type:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python/blob/13f65c81e2bec2a5d1f1e1efdd45aa061c4ec43f/src/claude_agent_sdk/types.py#L1071

It's a breaking change to people using type hints, but I suspect we could do it in such a way that the only breaks would be people genuinely looking in the wrong place for payloads (i.e. silent bugs).

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