Search stuck and never finishes

[jshihpason]

Describe the bug

I created a md to work around the issue, and it has the description

cat ~/.copilot/instructions/search-tool-workaround.instructions.md

Search / grep tool workaround

In this environment the built-in grep tool (and code-search tooling built on
it) can stall for minutes on the "Search" spinner, even though the underlying
ripgrep work completes in milliseconds. This is a tool-invocation-layer issue,
not a real search cost:

• Single-file ripgrep: ~2 ms
• Whole 70 GB / ~825k-file working tree: ~3.8 s

So the multi-minute "Search" hangs are NOT caused by ripgrep or repo size.

Guidance

• Prefer plain grep/rg and view/cat/sed via the bash tool for
  searching file contents and reading files. These return in milliseconds.
• Avoid the built-in grep tool here until the responsiveness bug is fixed.
• Always scope searches to a specific path/file when possible
  (e.g. grep -nE 'pattern' path/to/file).

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.79

Steps to reproduce the behavior

everytime it needs to Search

Search "something" ....

which stuck forever

Expected behavior

No response

Additional context

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