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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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…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...
comment by sigmoid10 · 2026-05-05 · in Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters -
…- 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 -
…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…
comment by simonw · 2025-07-01 · in The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering -
…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:…
comment by simonw · 2025-06-30 · in The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering -
GH: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
comment by joshwarwick15 · 2025-06-30 · in Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone -
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 -
…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