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Copilot CLI gets mid-run steering: Add to Queue, Steer with Message, Stop and Send.

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From the same release, you can now send follow-ups during an active agent run. "Steer with Message" redirects a long autonomous run without killing and restarting it, preserving accumulated context. This interaction pattern is showing up across every CLI agent now, and it's the right one. The kill-and-restart penalty on a long run was always the worst part of delegating.

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