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The problem

proxy start printed a green check for Copilot while Copilot went on talking to GitHub. Two independent reasons, both measured on a stock install.

1. The script nothing sources

Copilot reads provider settings from the environment only. app.js resolves COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL through process.env with no config-file fallback — confirmed by reading the bundle, not assumed:

function xWo(t){ let e = process.env[COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL]; if(!e) return; ... }

So the configurator writes a sourceable script and the user must add one line to a shell profile. On the machine this was developed against, that line was in no profile at all — not .zshrc, .zprofile, .bashrc, .bash_profile or .profile. apply() returned true, applyAllClients counted it applied, the proxy printed ✓ Auto-configured Copilot CLI settings, and Copilot had never once used the proxy.

The comment already sitting beside that print site states the principle: a client that keeps talking to its own upstream "looks like the proxy silently not being used", so "the failure has to be actionable at the level the user actually reads". It was applied to write failures and not to this — the same outcome reached by a different route.

2. The model that had to be passed every time

Copilot's BYOK path refuses to start without an explicit model:

$ copilot -p "say OK" --allow-all-tools
BYOK providers require an explicit model.   exit=1

A script that stops at the base URL is unusable without --model on every invocation.

The changes

Configurators gain an optional postApplyNote, and results an optional note, for exactly this shape: written, but not yet live, and here is the one line that fixes it. Copilot returns a note only when no profile sources the script, so it disappears once the user acts rather than nagging forever. Both render sites print it. The note is requested only when something was actually written — an instruction to act on configuration that does not exist would be worse than silence.

The script now exports COPILOT_PROVIDER_MODEL_ID through ${VAR:-default}, so a user who exports their own choice before sourcing keeps it.

A deliberate inconsistency, flagged

DEFAULT_PROXY_MODEL_ID is Sonnet, matching the reasoning already recorded on DEFAULT_MODELS_BY_TIER's api entry.

This is the opposite call from the one made for Gemini during #1589's review, where I declined to write GEMINI_MODEL. That was not inconsistency for its own sake: Gemini resolves a model client-side and works without one, so pinning it would have frozen a working default for no reason. Copilot errors without one. The difference is evidence, not preference.

Verification

copilot -p "say OK" --allow-all-tools      (no --model)
exit=0, proxy attempts delta=5             (was exit=1)

delta is the proxy's own attempt counter before/after — proof of routing, not just that the CLI answered.

Note behaviour:

no profile sources it  → applied: true, note: "Copilot reads provider settings from the environment only. Add..."
profile sources it     → applied: true, note: none

Both tests verified non-vacuous by reverting the specific change each covers and confirming the suite exits 1.

proxy suite  89 passed · 0 failed · 6 skipped   (three consecutive runs)
build 0 · check 0 · lint 0 errors · docs drift 0

One caveat on the suite

While two other agents were driving the same live proxy, this suite intermittently failed on Codex: model discovery route answers the CLI and Attribution: the request log records the calling CLI — a different one each run. I checked a clean release checkout and it fails the same way under the same load, so it is pre-existing flakiness in live tests that read shared proxy state, not something this PR introduces. Worth knowing before anyone reads a red run here as a regression.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Copilot configuration now sets a default model automatically, so users need not provide --model each time.
    • Configuration reports when an environment script must be sourced manually before changes take effect.
    • Setup and proxy start flows now display post-configuration instructions.
  • Documentation

    • Refreshed API reference links and formatting.
    • Documented new configuration feedback and result details.

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The proxy configuration flow now supports post-apply notes. Copilot writes a default model identifier, detects whether its environment script is sourced, and reports required follow-up actions. Tests cover both behaviors. Generated API references were refreshed.

Changes

Copilot proxy configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration contract and result reporting
src/lib/types/proxyClient.ts, src/lib/constants/proxyModels.ts, src/cli/proxy-clients/registry.ts, src/cli/commands/proxy.ts
Configurators can return an asynchronous postApplyNote. Apply results can carry a note. The registry retrieves notes after successful writes, and proxy start and setup flows print them.
Copilot environment configuration and validation
src/cli/proxy-clients/copilot.ts, test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
Copilot writes an overridable COPILOT_PROVIDER_MODEL_ID default. It checks shell profiles for copilot-env.sh and reports a note when no profile sources the script. Tests cover sourcing detection and model export generation.
Generated API reference refresh
docs/api/type-aliases/*
API reference pages document postApplyNote and note, refresh source-location links, and apply generated property-section formatting updates.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3a590

Copilot configuration can still appear active when only a commented profile line exists, leaving users connected to GitHub instead of the proxy, and the shipped CLI path is not directly validated by the new tests. Merge readiness is moderate until profile detection is corrected and built-CLI behavior is verified.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ProxyCommand
  participant applyAllClients
  participant CopilotConfigurator
  participant ShellProfiles
  User->>ProxyCommand: start or setup proxy
  ProxyCommand->>applyAllClients: apply client configurations
  applyAllClients->>CopilotConfigurator: apply()
  CopilotConfigurator-->>applyAllClients: applied configuration
  applyAllClients->>CopilotConfigurator: postApplyNote(proxyBaseUrl)
  CopilotConfigurator->>ShellProfiles: inspect profile files
  ShellProfiles-->>CopilotConfigurator: sourcing status
  CopilotConfigurator-->>applyAllClients: optional follow-up note
  applyAllClients-->>ProxyCommand: apply result
  ProxyCommand-->>User: successful configuration and optional note
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In `@src/cli/proxy-clients/copilot.ts`:
- Line 62: Update the profile detection condition around fs.readFileSync so it
ignores commented lines and matches an actual source or dot command referencing
copilot-env.sh. Preserve the activation-note behavior only when the generated
script is genuinely sourced.

In `@test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts`:
- Around line 3823-3824: Update both tests using applyAllClients and
restoreAllClients to invoke the built CLI through runCLI, targeting the shipped
dist/cli/index.js entrypoint instead of importing source-only configurator
internals. Assert the CLI note and generated model export from the command
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Comment thread test/continuous-test-suite-proxy.ts
…effect

`proxy start` printed a green check for Copilot while Copilot went on talking
to GitHub. Two independent reasons, both measured on a stock install.

**The script nothing sources.** Copilot reads provider settings from the
environment only — app.js resolves COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL through
process.env with no config-file fallback, confirmed by reading the bundle — so
its configurator writes a sourceable script and the user must add one line to a
shell profile. On the machine this was developed against that line was present
in no profile at all: not .zshrc, .zprofile, .bashrc, .bash_profile or
.profile. apply() returned true, applyAllClients counted it applied, the proxy
printed "✓ Auto-configured Copilot CLI settings", and Copilot had never once
used the proxy.

The existing comment beside that print site already states the principle —
a client that keeps talking to its own upstream "looks like the proxy silently
not being used", so "the failure has to be actionable at the level the user
actually reads". It was applied to write failures and not to this, which is the
same outcome reached by a different route.

Configurators gain an optional `postApplyNote`, and results an optional `note`,
for exactly this shape: written, but not yet live, and here is the one line
that fixes it. Copilot returns a note only when no profile sources the script,
so the message disappears once the user has acted rather than nagging forever.
Both render sites print it. The note is requested only when something was
actually written — an instruction to act on configuration that does not exist
would be worse than silence.

**The model that had to be passed every time.** Copilot's BYOK path refuses to
start without an explicit model: `copilot -p "..."` exited 1 with "BYOK
providers require an explicit model". A script that stops at the base URL is
therefore unusable without --model on every invocation. It now exports
COPILOT_PROVIDER_MODEL_ID through `${VAR:-default}`, so a user who exports
their own choice before sourcing keeps it.

DEFAULT_PROXY_MODEL_ID is Sonnet, matching the reasoning already recorded on
DEFAULT_MODELS_BY_TIER's `api` entry. Note this is the opposite call from the
one made for Gemini during #1589 review, and deliberately so: Gemini resolves a
model client-side and works without one, so pinning it there would have frozen
a working default for no reason. Copilot errors without one. The difference is
evidence, not preference.

Verified end to end against the running proxy:

  copilot -p "say OK" --allow-all-tools      (no --model)
  exit=0, proxy attempts delta=5             (was exit=1)

Both tests verified non-vacuous by reverting the specific change each covers
and confirming the suite exits 1.

  proxy suite  89 passed · 0 failed · 6 skipped, three consecutive runs
  build 0 · check 0 · lint 0 errors · docs drift 0
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- T3792799057-stale-models (#1337): the OpenRouter setup guide prints
  ids from OpenRouterModels instead of two retired ones.
- T3818293827-contextWindows (#1376): 1M windows for claude-opus-5,
  claude-fable-5, claude-opus-4-8 and claude-opus-4-7 on anthropic and
  vertex, placed before the 200K claude-opus-4 prefix key. The vendor's
  model pages (platform.claude.com/docs/en/models) list 1M for all four.
- T3788241310-errmsg-filename (#1327): the registry's on-demand PPTX
  extraction warning names the file.
- T4135201670 (#1861): runFfmpeg errors carry stdout and stderr when the
  process printed any, so the metadata probe's recovery is reachable;
  the probe keeps ffmpeg's own reason when it finds no duration.
- T3885676102-a (#1593): Copilot profile detection requires a real source
  command naming copilot-env.sh, not any mention of the file name.
- PF-T3790294069 (#1335): already fixed on release; a regression case for
  the hf alias with scoped credentials is added.
- T3790294070-class-ctor (#1335): classes registered with registerProvider
  are built with new; factories are never constructed or retried.
- T4113611221 (#1819): stream fallback re-reads tool calls, results and
  finish reason after the drain; the end-of-turn events now report the
  fallback's finish reason.
- T3837051072-orphan-jsdoc (#1483): the orphan JSDoc moves onto
  refreshNativeToolDeclarations and states what it returns; the guard
  wording is provider-neutral.

Not done:
- T3807182624 (#1354): optional hardening; no URL-valued provider name
  reaches the six registries.
- T3827301753 (#1407): optional extraction; the two emitters differ in
  finishReason handling and the cited file holds no emitter.
- The Copilot built-CLI migration in the draft proxy hunk stays in the
  separate deferred task.
- The same stale OpenRouter id in openRouter/client.ts error text and in
  the docs, and the missing bedrock rows for the four Claude ids.

Verification: build, check, lint, check:tools-tests, check:deps and
provider-structure pass, with the suites covering the changed files.
Red then green: the five dist-backed fixes in one combined run, the
Copilot scan and the ffmpeg error by hash-restored probes, the probe's
kept reason by its own run. Controls (alias, factory calls, throwing
factory, claude-sonnet-5) stay green on purpose. file-tool-roots fails
two analyzeCSV cases on an unmodified release tree too.
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