Let reported general-purpose agents inherit the selected model 🤖🤖🤖 by findscripter · Pull Request #6330 · github/awesome-copilot

findscripter · 2026-11-09T13:06:21Z

Description

The six general-purpose profiles named in the issue select models that may be unavailable in a user's client or account. Remove those presets so each profile uses the client's selected/default model. The contribution example leaves model unspecified, and the review guidance allows documented model-specific requirements with supported alternatives.

The six profiles retain their names, descriptions, tools, other frontmatter values, and complete bodies. The Foundry generation template retains its existing optional model example. The Learning Hub explains default inheritance and client-specific model and reasoning overrides.

Publish the shipped-agent changes by bumping context-engineering and software-engineering-team to 1.0.1, and awesome-copilot to 1.1.1, then regenerating their marketplace versions.

Validation

Parsed all six YAML frontmatters and compared them with the base revision: only model was removed.
All six agent bodies match the original revision exactly, including the Foundry generation template. The contribution example only removes its preset model line.
npm run build and git diff --check passed.
Current-head Linux preview CI passed the website data regressions and full Astro build.
npm run plugin:validate passed. Enumerating all distributing manifests identifies exactly those three plugins; their versions match the generated marketplace.
Inheritance behavior was checked against the GitHub configuration reference and VS Code reference.

This PR covers the six reported profiles and authoring guidance. No live invocation or backend-model telemetry was collected across the different clients.

AI-assisted implementation and validation.

github-actions · 2026-11-09T13:06:49Z

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github-actions · 2026-11-09T13:06:57Z

🚦 Submission status: 🛠️ Requires submitter fixes

Risk tier: merge-risk:high — Privileged execution, automation, or review-policy change
Required to merge: passing submission-gate checks plus 1 approval from reviewers with write access, including a maintainer with admin or maintain permission.

Why this tier

.github/copilot-instructions.md is a high-risk path (automation, scripts, MCP config, hooks, or review policy)

Automated checks

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Line endings	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
Spelling	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
Generated README consistency	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
Plugin and extension validation	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
Plugin structure	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
Skill lint (vally)	✅ Passed	Passed · logs
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Action needed

Address the changes requested by aaronpowell, then push an update.

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Still needed: 1 more approval(s); an approval from a maintainer with admin or maintain permission; resolution of changes requested by aaronpowell
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github-actions · 2026-11-09T13:06:57Z

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ℹ️	Vally currently lints SKILL.md content. Agent files were detected but skipped:

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### Agent files detected (not linted by vally)
ℹ️ Vally currently lints SKILL.md content. Agent files were detected but skipped:
agents/agent-governance-reviewer.agent.md
agents/context-architect.agent.md
agents/custom-agent-foundry.agent.md
agents/meta-agentic-project-scaffold.agent.md
agents/se-security-reviewer.agent.md
agents/se-technical-writer.agent.md

Copilot

🟡 Changes recommended

The shipped-agent changes leave their distributing plugin versions and marketplace entries unchanged, so update-detecting clients may not receive the model-inheritance fixes.

1 open issue

Bump plugin versions for the shipped model-inheritance changes · New

What changed in this PR

This pull request updates six general-purpose agents to inherit the user's selected/default model instead of pinning potentially unavailable model presets. It also updates agent-authoring guidance and the Custom Agent Foundry example to prefer model inheritance.

Changes:

Removes explicit model frontmatter from six general-purpose agents.
Updates contribution, repository, and agent-generation guidance.
Documents model-specific exceptions and supported alternatives.
Requires corresponding plugin version/marketplace updates and alignment with the learning-hub guidance.

This pull request requires changes.

File	Description
`CONTRIBUTING.md`	Updates the example agent format and model-selection guidance.
`agents/se-technical-writer.agent.md`	Removes the pinned GPT-5 model.
`agents/se-security-reviewer.agent.md`	Removes the pinned GPT-5 model.
`agents/meta-agentic-project-scaffold.agent.md`	Removes the pinned GPT-4.1 model.
`agents/custom-agent-foundry.agent.md`	Removes the pinned model and updates the generated-agent example and guidance.
`agents/context-architect.agent.md`	Removes the pinned GPT-5 model.
`agents/agent-governance-reviewer.agent.md`	Removes the pinned GPT-4o model.
`AGENTS.md`	Updates agent authoring and review checklist guidance.
`.github/copilot-instructions.md`	Aligns agent guidance with model inheritance by default.

_{Review effort: Lite (auto)}

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 description: 'An agent that helps plan and execute multi-file changes by identifying relevant context and dependencies'
-model: 'GPT-5'
 tools: ['search/codebase', 'search/usages', 'read/problems', 'read/readFile', 'edit/editFiles', 'execute/runInTerminal', 'execute/getTerminalOutput', 'web/fetch']


Copilot

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Maintainer confirmation is required because changes to AGENTS.md and .github/copilot-instructions.md alter model-selection policies governing contributor authoring and automated reviews.

1 open issue

Bump plugin versions for the shipped model-inheritance changes

_{Review effort: Balanced (auto)}

aaronpowell · 2026-11-11T03:41:39Z

 name: Display name for the agent (optional, defaults to filename)
 argument-hint: Guidance text for users on how to interact (optional)
 tools: ['tool1', 'tool2', 'toolset/*']  # Available tools
-model: Claude Sonnet 4  # Optional: specific model selection


This is probably incorrect guidance as it's for a Foundry agent, not a Copilot agent.

aaronpowell · 2026-11-11T03:41:47Z

+Omit `model` so the agent inherits the selected/default model. Add a preset only for a documented model-specific requirement, with supported alternatives.
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This is probably incorrect guidance as it's for a Foundry agent, not a Copilot agent.

aaronpowell · 2026-11-11T03:44:05Z

+Omit `model` by default so the agent inherits the user's selected/default model, as described in the [custom agent configuration reference](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/custom-agents-configuration). Set it only when the workflow has a documented model-specific requirement, and include supported alternatives.
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No need to have this if we remove the point about the model property.

aaronpowell

I've provided some inline comments of changes that are likely required.

…mple

github-actions · 2026-11-11T04:06:49Z

🧩 Canvas smoke test

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Preview image (≥ 400×160 PNG)	✅
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Materialize	✅
Install (Copilot CLI)	✅

Plugin `demotivational-calendar` v1.0.0

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Keywords	calendar, daily, demotivation, humor, offline
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Install	✅

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plugins/demotivational-calendar/README.md
plugins/demotivational-calendar/plugin.json

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Preview	400×923, 87.4 KB
Modules	3 (2 reachable from `extension.mjs`)
Files	6

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File system access (node:fs)
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calendar.test.mjs: import "node:test" is not a Node.js builtin, host-provided package, or declared dependency (module is not reachable from extension.mjs)

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extensions/demotivational-calendar/README.md
extensions/demotivational-calendar/assets/preview.png
extensions/demotivational-calendar/calendar.test.mjs
extensions/demotivational-calendar/extension.mjs
extensions/demotivational-calendar/index.html
extensions/demotivational-calendar/server.mjs

Static checks compile modules without executing them. Minimum preview size is configurable with CANVAS_PREVIEW_MIN_WIDTH/CANVAS_PREVIEW_MIN_HEIGHT. Workflow run

Copilot

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Changes to model-selection policy in AGENTS.md and .github/copilot-instructions.md alter automated review criteria and require maintainer confirmation.

1 open issue

Bump plugin versions for the shipped model-inheritance changes

_{Review effort: Balanced (auto)}

fix(agents): inherit selected models in reported profiles

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		Omit `model` by default so the agent inherits the user's selected/default model, as described in the [custom agent configuration reference](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/custom-agents-configuration). Set it only when the workflow has a documented model-specific requirement, and include supported alternatives.

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