Copilot Falls Back to PowerShell+COM to Convert Excel Without Python

A developer tested VS Code Copilot converting sales.csv to an Excel workbook, observing its fallback chain: after computer use was denied and Python unavailable, it zero-config solved the task via PowerShell and COM, showing agents simply pick whatever tools work.

2026-11-11 ~ 2026-11-12 · 2 related posts

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