There are some missing environment variables in `copilot help environment`

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the implementation of the copilot help environment command and compare its output with the linked CLI reference. Update the command's environment-variable listing to include the missing and experimental settings, then run copilot help environment to verify that the displayed list matches the reference.

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Description

area:tools
Describe the bug

When I run copilot help environment, the content displayed is incomplete. I can see the full version here, and I hope it can be added to the copilot help environment command output.

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.40.

Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. copilot help environment
Expected behavior

I expected that all environment variables, including experimental settings, would be displayed in the copilot help environment output.

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