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OTEL chat spans do not have the proper parent span for subagents #4858

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@Etienne-M

Describe the bug

When OTEL is enabled and copilot uses the task tool to start a subagent, an invoke_agent span is created which contains all the execute_tool spans, but a single chat span at the very beginning. All other chat spans do not have the appropriate parent set to the invoke_agent span.

This is especially confusing when copilot starts multiple subagents, because then the chat spans are all mixed together, and the github.copilot.turn_id do not make sense.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Enable OTEL
  2. Ask copilot to use the task tool multiple times, e.g. "Using the task tool, ask three sub-agents to summarize the last five commits of this project, then compare their summaries."
  3. Inspect the OTEL trace

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Activity

  1. added theissue type on Sep 15, 2026
  2. copilot-cli-bot commented on Oct 8, 2026

    @copilot-cli-bot

    This appears to be resolved as of GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.93. Please update to that release or a newer stable version. We're closing this as completed. If it still happens, please comment with your version and reproduction steps.

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