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Problem

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.105 (ACP Registry agent github-copilot-cli) returns configOptions from session/new with model.currentValue: "claude-sonnet-5.5", but the session doesn't run that model until the client sets one with session/set_config_option. Until then, setting reasoning_effort fails with -32603 "Request session.model.setReasoningEffort failed with message: This model does not support reasoning_effort configuration.". Once model is set explicitly, even to the value already reported, effort changes work.

T3 never sends that explicit set. AcpSessionRuntime.setConfigOption skips a write when the option already reports the value, and the ACP Registry driver marks Copilot's reported model as the default. So a new Copilot thread on the default model, or any thread where the user picks the model Copilot reports, never sends model.

What the user sees on main:

• The thread shows claude-sonnet-5.5 and the effort they chose, and turns run and complete normally. No error appears.
• Copilot actually runs a different model. In my setup, Copilot's own session events (~/.copilot/session-state/<id>/events.jsonl) recorded session.model_change with newModel: "gpt-6.1-sol" for threads T3 showed as claude-sonnet-5.5.
• The chosen reasoning effort is dropped. configureSession catches the -32603 and logs only a server warning ("ACP session rejected a configuration option value", optionId: reasoning_effort). If the chosen effort equals the reported medium, nothing is sent and nothing is logged. Changing effort later in the thread hits the same rejection, because the model is still never set.

Picking a model other than the reported one works, because that value differs and T3 sends it.

Change

• packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts: setConfigOption takes an optional resendCurrentValue. When it is set, the runtime skips the "already current" short-circuit and writes the value. Every existing caller keeps its current behavior.
• packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts: a new optional flavor flag, alwaysSetModel. When it is set, configureSession writes the selected model through the model config option even if the option already reports it. configureSession runs on session open, after a session/load or session/resume activation (including the Copilot restart path from fix(acp): a lost or locked Copilot session restarts on the next message instead of failing every time #26651), and when the selection changes at turn start, so all of those paths send the model before any effort or other option.
• packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/adapter.ts: the existing Copilot-only flavor block sets alwaysSetModel: true.

The cost is one extra session/set_config_option for model each time T3 configures a Copilot session.

Why a Copilot flag and not a generic change

I also looked at the generic option: never trust a value session/new reports until a set or config_option_update confirms it. I didn't use it for three reasons:

• session/new describing the session's real state is the ACP contract, and every other agent T3 supports follows it as far as I know. Distrusting it would add a write at session start for every agent and every matching option (model, mode, effort, and so on). Some agents do real work when the model changes.
• As a rough measure, making the write unconditional for every agent changes the expected wire traffic in four existing tests for other agents: three rows of "rejects an unavailable explicit model…" and "preserves the ACP model-write switch failure through orchestration".
• The repo already handles Copilot quirks this way, with flavor fields set in the Copilot block (mcpOverHttp, and restartRuntimeAfterPromptError from fix(acp): a lost or locked Copilot session restarts on the next message instead of failing every time #26651).

The flag only affects the model config option path. In the session/new responses I observed, Copilot 1.0.105 sends a model select (and also legacy models, which the adapter uses only when there is no select), so the legacy session/set_model branch is unchanged: it still skips a same-value write.

Scope and approval

There is no prior issue or discussion. I think this qualifies as a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug: T3 shows one model and Copilot runs another, and the user's reasoning effort is silently rejected. The change is limited to Copilot: one optional runtime parameter, one flavor flag and one line enabling it for Copilot, plus a two-row test. There are no contract, setting or UI changes, and no other agent changes behavior. I'm also filing the underlying Copilot bug with github/copilot-cli. If Copilot fixes it, the extra write just becomes redundant.

Verification

Live protocol check, without prompts (free): a Node script speaks ACP to copilot --acp 1.0.105 with a fresh COPILOT_HOME that contains only a copied config.json (no model setting). It never sends session/prompt.

session/new ok [["model","claude-sonnet-5.5"],["reasoning_effort","medium"]]
effort=low (no model set) ERROR {"code":-32603,"message":"Request session.model.setReasoningEffort failed with message: This model does not support reasoning_effort configuration."}
model=<reported> explicitly ok [["model","claude-sonnet-5.5"],["reasoning_effort","medium"]]
effort=low (after model set) ok [["model","claude-sonnet-5.5"],["reasoning_effort","low"]]

The same script showed that the full configOptions in the explicit-set response are identical to the session/new ones, so T3's view of the options doesn't change. Setting the same model again after reasoning_effort: "high" still reports high, so the repeated write on a mid-thread selection change doesn't reset the reported effort.

Test, at the lowest layer that fails on main. A new two-row table in AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts sits next to the existing model-picker cases and reuses their openWithStoredPicks replay helper (it gained an optional agentId). It drives the real ACP Registry adapter against a replay-agent subprocess. session/new reports model: "claude-sonnet-5.5" and reasoning_effort: "medium"; the stored selection is claude-sonnet-5.5 with effort low. The replay requires the frames in order.

Row	Expected wire traffic after session/new
fixture-agent	reasoning_effort: "low" only (the reported model is trusted)
github-copilot-cli	model: "claude-sonnet-5.5", then reasoning_effort: "low"

cd apps/server
vp test run src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts -t "on a model it reports as current"

• On main (the three source files checked out from main, new test kept): the Copilot row fails with Unexpected outbound ACP frame: the replay expected the model write and T3 sent reasoning_effort: "low" first, the write Copilot rejects. The fixture row passes.
• Mutation check: writing the current value for every agent fails the fixture row, so the test also guards other agents.
• An unchanged follow-up turn sends no configuration writes: with the fix, adding a second turn on the same selection to both rows passes with only session/prompt on the wire. It isn't in the committed table because on main that variant hangs on the turn after the rejected effort write instead of failing at the mismatch.
• With the fix: both rows pass, and so do the whole file and the neighbouring AcpAdapterV2.test.ts (118 tests across the two files).
• vp run check:changed upstream/main: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (13 packages) and tests all pass.

Not checked:

• I didn't run a live prompt with this patch to confirm which model Copilot used afterwards, because prompts cost money. The evidence that the explicit write makes Copilot use the model comes from the free protocol check above (effort is accepted only after it). Separately, a local stdio proxy that sends the same session/set_config_option right after session/new was followed in Copilot's session events by session.model_change to claude-sonnet-5.5. That is my workaround, not this patch.
• I couldn't check whether Copilot's session/load response has the same problem. A session that never received a prompt isn't saved, so session/load returns -32002 not found. The fix also sends the model after load and resume activations when that response lists a model config option. If it lists only legacy models, the adapter falls back to session/set_model, which still skips a same-value write, as on main.

Written by Opus 5.5 with Claude Code. Reviewed by GPT 6.1 Sol: 2 rounds, verdict approved.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 7a4dd2c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Copilot now explicitly receives the selected model even when it already reports that value, preventing its internal default from silently overriding the selection. The extra request is Copilot-specific and leaves other agents’ behavior unchanged.

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Enable the workaround for Copilot launched through npx.

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Review comments at @packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Line 260: Update the Copilot detection used to set alwaysSetModel so it also
recognizes the npx @github/copilot launcher, or uses negotiated agent
information to identify Copilot; preserve the workaround for local copilot
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Walkthrough

The ACP runtime can resend a config option when its value matches the current value. The adapter enables this behavior for Copilot model selection. Tests cover stored model and reasoning-effort options.

Changes: ACP model config selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime support for resending config values packages/provider-acp/src/server/AcpSessionRuntime.ts	setConfigOption accepts resendCurrentValue. When enabled, a matching current value no longer skips the agent request.
Copilot model selection and test coverage packages/provider-acp/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-acp-registry/src/server/adapter.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpRegistryAdapterV2.test.ts	The adapter passes the resend flag based on the flavor setting, and the Copilot flavor enables it. Tests cover stored model and reasoning-effort options.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: stienswout, agadzik

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7a4dd

Copilot launched through npx can still run a different model than selected and reject reasoning-effort changes. Fix that launcher path before merging unless its limitation is explicitly accepted.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(acp): Copilot runs the model it reports as selected" follows conventional commit form and names the main change: T3 now sends the model Copilot reports so Copilot runs that model. The c…
Description check		The description follows the template's sections (Problem, Change, Scope and approval, Verification) and fills each one with specific content. The Problem section gives the Copilot CLI 1.0.105 behavior…
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The title "fix(acp): Copilot runs the model it reports as selected" follows conventional commit form and names the main change: T3 now sends the model Copilot reports so Copilot runs that model. The changeset adds resendCurrentValue to setConfigOption and an alwaysSetModel flavor flag enabled for Copilot, which matches the title.

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The description follows the template's sections (Problem, Change, Scope and approval, Verification) and fills each one with specific content. The Problem section gives the Copilot CLI 1.0.105 behavior, reproduction context, and observed effects. The Change section maps each file to its modification and explains the Copilot-only flag. Scope and approval explains why no prior issue exists and why the fix qualifies as a very small, focused fix. Verification gives a live protocol check, a named replay test with its command and expected traffic, and a list of what was not checked. The template's header comment and the 'Scope and approval' guidance are addressed directly. The one soft point is that the author gives no linked issue or maintainer approval; the description explains the exemption reasoning instead, which the template allows for a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug.

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