fix deprecated tools principal engineer#1198
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…are-engineer agent Replace deprecated/incorrect tool references with canonical VS Code built-in tool names per https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/reference/copilot-vscode-features: search/changes (add correct prefix) vscode/extensions (add correct prefix) read/problems (add correct prefix) search/usages (add correct prefix) execute/testFailure (add correct prefix) vscode/VSCodeAPI (correct casing and prefix) search/textSearch (renamed tool) read/terminalLastCommand (moved to read/) read/terminalSelection (moved to read/) execute (renamed tool set) execute/createAndRunTask (renamed) newWorkspace (renamed) - Remove deprecated tools with no equivalent: findTestFiles, githubRepo, openSimpleBrowser, runTests Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates the Principal Software Engineer agent configuration to replace deprecated tool references with a simplified set of canonical toolsets aligned with current VS Code Copilot tool naming.
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- Replaces a long list of legacy/deprecated tool names with higher-level toolsets (e.g.,
read,edit,execute,search,github/*,vscode). - Removes deprecated tools that no longer have equivalents by switching to canonical tool groupings.
| description: 'Provide principal-level software engineering guidance with focus on engineering excellence, technical leadership, and pragmatic implementation.' | ||
| name: 'Principal software engineer' | ||
| tools: ['changes', 'search/codebase', 'edit/editFiles', 'extensions', 'web/fetch', 'findTestFiles', 'githubRepo', 'new', 'openSimpleBrowser', 'problems', 'runCommands', 'runTasks', 'runTests', 'search', 'search/searchResults', 'runCommands/terminalLastCommand', 'runCommands/terminalSelection', 'testFailure', 'usages', 'vscodeAPI', 'github'] | ||
| tools: ['agent', 'browser', 'edit', 'execute', 'github/*', 'read', 'search', 'todo', 'vscode', 'web/fetch'] |
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The agent instructions reference using the create_issue tool, but the updated tools list only enables github/* (no create_issue). To avoid tool-call failures, either update the instruction text to use github/create_issue (since github/* is enabled) or explicitly add the correct issue-creation tool to the tools: array.
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npm startand verified thatREADME.mdis up to date.stagedbranch for this pull request.Description
Replace deprecated/incorrect tool references with canonical VS Code built-in tool names per https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/reference/copilot-vscode-features:
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