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Fix incorrect label for background sessions in Agent Sessions status bar #286713

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The Agent Sessions section in the status bar was showing "GitHub Copilot coding agent in progress" for background sessions instead of "Background Agent in progress". This happened because reportInProgress was using the contribution's displayName rather than the short provider name.

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  • Modified reportInProgress in chatSessions.contribution.ts to use explicit localized display names for known session types
  • Background sessions now show "Background Agent"
  • Cloud sessions now show "Cloud Agent"
  • Local sessions now show "Local Agent"
  • Unknown session types fall back to contribution displayName
if (chatSessionType === AgentSessionProviders.Local) {
    displayName = localize('chat.session.inProgress.local', "Local Agent");
} else if (chatSessionType === AgentSessionProviders.Background) {
    displayName = localize('chat.session.inProgress.background', "Background Agent");
} else if (chatSessionType === AgentSessionProviders.Cloud) {
    displayName = localize('chat.session.inProgress.cloud', "Cloud Agent");
} else {
    displayName = this._contributions.get(chatSessionType)?.contribution.displayName;
}
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<issue_title>Duplicate entries in Agent Sessions section of status bar</issue_title>
<issue_description>

Ref https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/6527

  • Kick off a few agent sessions (cloud and background)
  • See the in-progress icon on the Copilot status bar entry and I click on it
  • ❓ I see 2 entries about cloud agents being in progress
    • Cloud Agent in progress
    • GitHub Copilot coding agent in progress
      • Image

</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>The label is wrong for the background session, it should be background session not GitHub Copilot</agent_instructions>

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix duplicate entries in agent sessions section Fix incorrect label for background sessions in Agent Sessions status bar Jan 9, 2026
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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an issue where the Agent Sessions status bar was displaying incorrect labels for background sessions. The background session was showing "GitHub Copilot coding agent in progress" instead of "Background Agent in progress" because the code was using the contribution's displayName rather than appropriate short labels for known agent session types.

Key Changes:

  • Modified reportInProgress method to use explicit localized display names for known session types (Local, Background, and Cloud agents)
  • Added import of AgentSessionProviders enum to properly identify agent session types
  • Each known agent type now displays with consistent "Agent" suffix: "Local Agent", "Background Agent", "Cloud Agent"

@bpasero bpasero merged commit 759266a into main Jan 9, 2026
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@bpasero bpasero deleted the copilot/fix-duplicate-agent-entries branch January 9, 2026 14:38
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