Support temperature/sampling parameters in plugin SKILL.md metadata

[MSFTTracyP]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Entire teams writing official tech docs but can't change the temperature or top-p

Proposed solution

Plugin authors building documentation-authoring skills need low-temperature inference to minimize fabrication and hallucination. Currently, there is no way for a plugin or skill to specify temperature, top_p, or other sampling parameters -- not in plugin.json, agency.json, or SKILL.md frontmatter metadata.

The only workaround is embedding prompt-level instructions like "behave as if temperature is 0.0-0.2," which is unreliable because the model may not honor behavioral temperature constraints the same way it honors API-level parameters.

Allow SKILL.md frontmatter metadata to include sampling parameters that Copilot CLI passes through to the inference API:

---
name: write-concept
description: Author a concept article with verification
metadata:
  temperature: 0.1
  top_p: 0.9
  max_tokens: 8192
---

Or alternatively, support this at the plugin level in plugin.json:

{
  "name": "author-pro",
  "modelParameters": {
    "temperature": 0.1,
    "top_p": 0.9
  }
}

Either approach would let plugin authors tune inference behavior for their use case -- low temperature for factual documentation, higher temperature for creative brainstorming, etc.

1. Prompt-level behavioral constraints -- "Respond as if temperature is set to 0.1." Works partially but is not equivalent to API-level control. Models still exhibit higher variance than a true low-temperature API call.

2. MCP server with sampling -- Build an MCP server that uses the sampling/createMessage protocol method with temperature parameters. This is architecturally heavier and adds latency, but could work if sampling parameters are passed through to the inference backend.

3. Direct API calls via MCP -- Build an MCP server that calls Azure OpenAI directly with explicit temperature. This works but requires separate API credentials, deployment management, and cost -- defeating the purpose of an integrated plugin system.

Example prompts or workflows

• This affects any plugin where output accuracy matters more than creativity (documentation, compliance, security review, technical writing).
• The task tool already supports a model parameter for sub-agents. Extending this pattern to include temperature would be consistent.
• MCP sampling events (sampling.requested / sampling.completed) already exist in the session events schema, suggesting the infrastructure may partially exist.

Additional context