Activating Cortana in Reasoning Threads (More humorous than glitch)

[iPoetDev]

Type: Bug

Is Cortana alive in GitHub Copilot? Spotted twice

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.119.0-insider (7e4091c, 2026-04-29T21:38:10-07:00)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Modes:

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(1 theme extensions excluded)

[vs-code-engineering]

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[iPoetDev]

I also saw Calling Clippy ... or some reference to Clippy.
Someone has Easter engs/eggs in your thinking traces boundaries.
It's your code, so you know the regex to grep for.

[iPoetDev]

I think these are linked to

    "chat.agent.thinking.phrases": {
        "mode": "append",
        "phrases": []
    },