VSCode GitHub Copilot chat errors on .claude/settings copy.json

[marioja]

Problem

When VSCode's GitHub Copilot chat is active and the workspace contains .claude/settings copy.json, Copilot picks it up as an active Claude Code settings file and tries to execute the hooks it defines. The hook commands fail under Windows PowerShell with:

The token '||' is not a valid statement separator in this version.

This fires repeatedly on SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, and Stop hook events inside VSCode. It surfaces as a noisy error in Copilot chat panels and effectively breaks the hook pipeline for anyone who has Copilot chat running alongside claude-flow.

Root cause

The file .claude/settings copy.json has a .json extension, so Copilot's workspace scanner treats it as a valid Claude Code settings file and attempts to run the hooks. The PowerShell-incompatible || operator in the hook commands then fails.

Fix

Rename the file so the .json extension is no longer the final extension, which prevents Copilot from treating it as a live settings file:

.claude/settings copy.json  →  .claude/settings.json.copy

PR

See #1615 for the proposed rename.

Feel free to ignore the PR if you prefer to fix this yourself — it's just a file rename with no content changes, no functional impact on claude-flow itself.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Shell: PowerShell (the one Copilot spawns, not the bash shell Claude Code uses)
• VSCode with GitHub Copilot chat enabled