Assign custom agent to issue via assign_copilot_to_issue

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, go
Domain
api, tooling

Research direction

Start at the assign_copilot_to_issue tool entry point and trace how its arguments are defined and passed to the GitHub API. Add support for the custom-agent name described in the issue, then verify that assigning an issue can pass that value while existing calls remain valid.

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Description

enhancement
Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

I want to assign a Copilot coding agent with a custom agent to an issue via assign_copilot_to_issue

Proposed solution

Add a parameter to the tool that enables passing in the name of the custom agent to assign to the issue.

Example prompts or workflows (for tools/toolsets only)

"Assign the Contoso Implementation Planner agent to Issue #32"

Dominant language
Go
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