From ac305117f696797497a121d2e09faafcb9ea0dc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tyler Garner Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:04:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix: update tool names to canonical VS Code format in principal-software-engineer agent (#1198) 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> --- agents/principal-software-engineer.agent.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/agents/principal-software-engineer.agent.md b/agents/principal-software-engineer.agent.md index 26802359..379b2cc7 100644 --- a/agents/principal-software-engineer.agent.md +++ b/agents/principal-software-engineer.agent.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- 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'] --- # Principal software engineer mode instructions