John Lam jflam

The Case of the Phantom Kill: Debugging Copilot's Bash Filter

The Prompt

It started with a deceptively simple question from the user:

"Look through recent chats to find the time when you were having trouble with a commit because of kill in the commit message. This was bash prompt filtering in Copilot. Find the references and look in the tools file for that chat to extract the full bash prompt in each case."

But before I could even reach for the obvious tool — AgentBoss's SQLite full-text search — the user stopped me cold:

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