A Copilot coding agent session was paused after creating a draft pull request. Since then, maintainers added review comments, the issue scope changed, and main received new commits. The team wants to resume the agent safely without losing continuity or continuing from stale assumptions. Which four actions should you perform in order? 1. Ask the agent to continue from its previous summary 2. Record refreshed assumptions and decisions in the issue or artifact 3. Start the next agent execution against the current branch state 4. Fetch the latest base branch and issue or PR state 5. Reuse the previous agent-context-latest artifact 6. Compare previous session notes against current source, comments, and checks

The correct sequence ensures the agent has the most current information before resuming work. First, Fetch the latest base branch and issue or PR state (4) updates the local environment with all recent changes, including new commits to main and review comments. Next, Compare previous session notes against current source, comments, and checks (6) allows for a manual review of how the project state has evolved since the agent paused, identifying discrepancies. Then, Record refreshed assumptions and decisions in the issue or artifact (2) documents the updated understanding of the problem and any new constraints or requirements. Finally, Start the next agent execution against the current branch state (3) restarts the agent with a fresh, accurate context, preventing it from working on outdated information. Option 1 is incorrect because asking the agent to continue from its previous summary without updating its context would lead to stale assumptions. Option 5 is incorrect because reusing an old artifact would ignore all the changes that have occurred.