Ensure all agents have correct tools in their YAML frontmatter

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Pull Request

Description

Several agents were missing tools in their YAML frontmatter tools: list that they require to function correctly.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update
• Code quality improvement

Related Issues

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Build and Test

• Code builds successfully: dotnet build --configuration Release
• All unit tests pass: dotnet test --configuration Release
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Code Quality

• Code formatting is correct: dotnet format --verify-no-changes
• New code has appropriate XML documentation comments
• Static analyzer warnings have been addressed

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Testing

• Added unit tests for new functionality
• Updated existing tests if behavior changed
• All tests follow the AAA (Arrange, Act, Assert) pattern
• Test coverage is maintained or improved

Documentation

• Updated README.md (if applicable)
• Updated ARCHITECTURE.md (if applicable)
• Added code examples for new features (if applicable)
• Updated requirements.yaml (if applicable)

Additional Notes

Changes are confined to YAML frontmatter tools: lines in .github/agents/*.agent.md — no agent instructions or logic were modified.

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Pull request overview

Updates Copilot agent definitions to ensure agents that coordinate with peers have the required agent tool available, and standardizes tool frontmatter across all agent profiles.

Changes:

• Add agent to the tools: frontmatter list for multiple coordinating agents.
• Standardize agent frontmatter toolsets to [read, search, edit, execute, github, agent] (including adding missing github / execute / edit where applicable).

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
.github/agents/test-developer.agent.md	Expands tools list to include github and agent (and standardizes ordering).
.github/agents/technical-writer.agent.md	Expands tools list to include github and agent (and standardizes ordering).
.github/agents/software-developer.agent.md	Adds agent to enable cross-agent handoffs.
.github/agents/requirements.agent.md	Expands tools list to include github and agent (and standardizes ordering).
.github/agents/repo-consistency.agent.md	Standardizes tools list by adding execute (already had github and agent).
.github/agents/code-review.agent.md	Standardizes tools list by adding edit (already had github and agent).
.github/agents/code-quality.agent.md	Adds agent to enable cross-agent handoffs (also standardizes ordering).

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[Malcolmnixon]

@copilot For those agents that contain github URLs for reading reference information, do those agents need the 'web' tool specified in their YAML frontmatter?

[Copilot]

@copilot For those agents that contain github URLs for reading reference information, do those agents need the 'web' tool specified in their YAML frontmatter?

Yes — two agents explicitly reference external raw GitHub URLs as content to fetch and read:

• code-review: instructs the agent to download https://github.com/demaconsulting/ContinuousCompliance/raw/.../review-template.md as its review checklist
• requirements: uses raw GitHub URLs to ContinuousCompliance/raw/.../requirements.md as the authoritative reference documentation it reads

Both now have web added to their tools list (commit 21a99a6).

The other agents' URLs are either GitHub search/API operations (covered by github tool), or just example code blocks illustrating documentation style conventions — neither of which requires the web tool.