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Copilot Chat extension for VS Code

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-06-27 · latest 2026-05-05

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  1. …look at the edit text file tool in va code copilot for example to see how complicated that can get: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/tree/9e668c...
  2. …- the VS Code GitHub Copilot extension is open source amnd has an agent mode with tool calling: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/4f7ffd...
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-11-06 · in You should write an agent
  3. …part of the system prompts used by the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code - from this line: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/40d039... The full line is: When using the {ToolName.ReadFile} tool, prefer reading a…
  4. …assembled with tool instructions for various tools based on whether or not they are enabled: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/v0.29.... And the autocomplete stuff has a wealth of contextual information included:…
  5. GH: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
    comment by joshwarwick15 · 2025-06-30 · in Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone
  6. Here's the system Prompt Template they use : https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/4c72d6...
    comment by gatienboquet · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
  7. …tool gets called] -> responseProcessor.processResponse -> doProcessResponse -> applyDelta -> [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/main/s... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/main/s... [2]…
    comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
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    Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
    story by ulugbekna · 2025-06-27 · 69 comments