Improve velocity of agentic feature development

[edburns]

After three or four semi-automated features merged into this codebase, it's time to refine the process for more repeatability, velocity, and agentic utilization.

Iterating: https://github.com/edburns/copilot-sdk/tree/edburns/1893-agentic-feature-development

Previous examples

• Java: Bring "experimental feature flagging" to parity with C# #1573
• Java: Ergonomics: Defining tools #1682
• 80-move-to-monorepo

Work items in this Feature aim to create an invocable process to add features to this codebase in an agent-native way.

[edburns]

Current status: Used these skills to perform development of #1810. Use did accelerate, but there is more work to be done.

Next steps

• Solve the problem where the Copilot cloud agent does not reliably select the specified topic branch as the base for its work when it starts working.

• Make it so the skills write out their complete copilot log to the -remove-before-merge directory in the topic branch.

[edburns]

I have moved this campaign to https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/3031763/?view=edit .