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Separate Shell for Running Agent Commands with GitHub Copilot

My VS Code got stuck when agents ran terminal commands and my zsh takes up to a second to load, so here is a settings.json profile that makes Copilot agents use bash.

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I had some problems when my VS Code became stuck multiple times because agents attempted to run some simple terminal commands, and my CPU flew to the moon. Of course, a reboot helped. But I was also thinking it could be because of my /bin/zsh configuration, which includes Oh My Zsh and the Powerlevel10k theme and takes up to 1 second to load. I had no issues with /bin/bash. I decided to see if it was possible to keep my zsh shell while instructing agents to use the bash shell.

There is a solution for settings.json:

"chat.tools.terminal.terminalProfile.osx": {
    "label": "bash",
    "path": "/bin/bash"
}

Perhaps it would be useful for you as well.

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