Copilot CLI issue proposes inline custom-agent calls and chaining
DenDrobiazko-Apryse · ghdev · 2026-07-21
A GitHub Copilot CLI issue proposes explicit inline custom-agent invocation and chaining inside prompts.
- Today, users can pick a custom agent before starting a task or rely on automatic delegation, but cannot clearly switch agents mid-prompt.
- The proposal adds syntax like $agent: architecture-review so a workflow can pass findings from one specialized agent to another while preserving context.
- The author argues this would make multi-agent workflows more deterministic, easier to document, and less dependent on the model guessing which agent to use.
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