"steering" the agent during execution dumped the entire session into the comment

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Since Jun 8, 2026.

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sent a one line message to an agent while it was running, somehow that caused 60 kb of text that includes not just terminal output but also part of session included in the request

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Issue Details
Item Value
Issue Category Bug
Target Visual Studio Code
VS Code Version Code 1.123.0 (6a44c352bd24569c417e530095901b649960f9f8, 2026-06-03T11:29:03+02:00)
OS Version Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
System Info
Item Value
VS Code Version Code 1.123.0 (6a44c352bd24569c417e530095901b649960f9f8, 2026-06-03T11:29:03+02:00)
OS Version Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
CPUs AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (16 x 2445)
GPU Status 2d_canvas: unavailable_software
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VENDOR=Microsoft, DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8246 ACTIVE
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8246
GPU2: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8246
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: disabled_software
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: disabled_off
rasterization: disabled_software
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: disabled_software
video_encode: disabled_software
webgl: unavailable_software
webgpu: unavailable_software
webnn: unavailable_software
Load (avg)
Memory (System) 63.95GB (20.48GB free)
Process Argv --crash-reporter-id aee14a48-e41d-45ef-8ac6-03c2dde1fc4f
Screen Reader no
VM 0%
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.123.0 Chrome/148.0.7778.97 Electron/42.2.0 Safari/537.36
Installation pure true
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Agency microsoft.agency Microsoft 1.0.260515001
Bicep ms-azuretools.vscode-bicep ms-azuretools 0.43.8
C# ms-dotnettools.csharp ms-dotnettools 2.140.8
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C/C++ ms-vscode.cpptools ms-vscode 1.32.2
PowerShell ms-vscode.powershell ms-vscode 2025.4.0
Remote Explorer ms-vscode.remote-explorer ms-vscode 0.5.0
Remote - Tunnels ms-vscode.remote-server ms-vscode 1.5.3
YAML redhat.vscode-yaml redhat 1.23.0

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