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Support search and web tools in Copilot custom-agent subagents - #347181
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[WIP] Fix custom agent access to tools in subagent execution
Support search and web tools in Copilot custom-agent subagents
Nov 9, 2026
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Description
Copilot custom agents could lose search and web capabilities when run as subagents because their frontmatter group aliases were passed to the SDK as tool names.
searchandwebto the corresponding registered SDK tools at launch.For example,
tools: [search, web]now resolves togrep,rg,glob,web_fetch, andweb_search.