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Custom-agent reference documents reasoningEffort, but the working frontmatter key is reasoning-effort #4963
The Copilot CLI custom-agent reference documents reasoningEffort as a frontmatter field. In Copilot CLI 1.0.88, that spelling did not apply the configured effort when I selected the agent with /agent. Changing only the field name to reasoning-effort made it work.
This matches the syntax reported in a comment on #2904. The reference currently leads users to configure a field that does not work in this case.
Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.88; macOS arm64.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Define a custom agent with reasoningEffort: "low" in its YAML frontmatter.
Select it with /agent and observe that the configured effort does not take effect.
Change only that key to reasoning-effort: "low", reload the agent, and select it again.
Observe that the configured effort now takes effect.
Expected behavior
Update the custom-agent frontmatter reference to document reasoning-effort as the working key, including its description and precedence examples. If reasoningEffort is also intended to be supported, document both spellings and fix the camelCase spelling separately; it should not be presented as working while it is not.
Additional context
The issue is the documented frontmatter spelling, not a request to add per-agent reasoning effort: that capability was addressed in #2904.
Same thing I see here as well. Also "context-tier" needs documenting (I see other places claim contextTier is correct, but again only the hyphenated version works)
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DazzaL commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Same thing I see here as well. Also "context-tier" needs documenting (I see other places claim contextTier is correct, but again only the hyphenated version works)