copilot cli hooks not firing for background agent

[GAHila]

Describe the bug

Copliot CLI hooks do not fire (none of them) when copilot starts an agent as a background agent.

I used:
copilot --allow-all --autopilot --model claude-sonnet-4.6

I saw hooks that used for logs firing only when the copilot was working in foreground but once a background agent started, no hooks fired.

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.11.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

I exercised the copilot cli with a custom agent that has some directions how to built an app, in my case a spa app.

I have it configured to use hooks for logging.

I used copilot --allow-all --autopilot --model claude-sonnet-4.6

I ran it twice with same directions except for once it asks me for the app id and some description and second case I provided them in the prompt and asked it to run in background.

First time it ran all the steps in foreground and all hooks fired properly.

Second time it started in foreground and then in continued all app creation with tests in background and for all the background agent that is spawned it never fired any hooks.

I captured the hook output and the also the copilot logs in debug mode.

Hooks not firing for background process is a big problem. Logs is not as bad but I am planning to use them for preventing some unwanted behavior for tool use.

Hook file and the logs attached.

hook-logs-background.log
hook-logs-foreground.log
process-1774458031414-26320-foreground.log
process-1774458987890-52184-background.log

hooks.json

Expected behavior

Hooks should fire when background agents are executing

Additional context

• Log using "log_level": "debug" in config.json
• Operating System: MacOS Tahoe 26.3
• CPU Architecture: ARM M1
• Terminal Emulator: iTemr2
• Shell: bash