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Skills that launch agents, such as review, don't start them from Copilot sessions in VS Code. Ask mode there is read-only and has no task tool. They work in Local sessions with Run Subagent enabled. This adds a short README section with those steps.

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### Copilot in VS Code

Skills that launch agents, such as `review`, need **Local** sessions in VS
Code. In **Copilot** sessions, Ask mode is read-only and cannot launch agents.

1. Switch the chat session to **Local**.
2. Under **Configure Tools**, enable the terminal and **Run Subagent**
(`agent/runSubagent`).

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not blocking but I'm thinking we might want to introduce a docs folder with these instructions for each harness, just so we don't bloat the README

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