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Update agent aware terminal environment variable #320127

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Update agent aware terminal environment variable#320127
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Courtney Webster (cwebster-99)
opened on Jun 5, 2026

In an effort to standardize across integrators, can VS Code update our terminal agent aware env var to AI_AGENT and then vs code would return github_copilot_vscode_agent?

Ref: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_121#_agentaware-terminal-commands

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  1. Courtney Webster (cwebster-99)
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    Megan Rogge (meganrogge)
    on Jun 5, 2026
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  4. Megan Rogge (meganrogge)
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  5. Megan Rogge (meganrogge)
    closed this as completedin #320129on Jun 5, 2026
  6. Megan Rogge (meganrogge)
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    Set AI_AGENT env var for agent terminals (#320129)

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