Building your own GitHub Copilot chat participant in VS Code

[@arieheinrich3457]

Fantastic demo and great and direct ! The new github copilot extension are going to revolutionize a LOT of our work.

[@code]

Glad you think so!

[@techtake25]

so apt... live coding regex... whattaa skill

[@thunde7226]

yes, I saw this presentation several months ago.... both of the ladies were great..... yes doing live coding and doing regex, it is a challenge...................:) bye

[@BillyVentris-m4c]

I'm I

[@DougFinke]

Great topic, great presenter!

[@cintron3d]

0:15 Idk why so many folks are scared of regex, it's a relatively small language compared to /^[JT]SX?$/gm and with enough practice it becomes second nature.

[@LauraHuang-w4e]

Thanks for sharing!

[@aryanjain7645]

Explanation was Great 👍 I have question like if I have developed the chat participants for GH copilot , and deployed how can I give the option for update the chat participants from extension itself like GH copilot has.

[@aniketthorat3957]

Question: how to we create sub command like @review /code or @review /file how we can create chat participates like this

[@wotcherbabe]

add a command within the chat participant in package.json "chatParticipants": [ { "commands": [] }]

[@robinjoshua93]

Joyce said that the extension will be available in VS Code Stable per July, however, I am not able to find it. Is it publiced yet? If so, how can I find it?

[@jacobbrooks3116]

Am I missing the steps she used to allow the chat participant access to her databases? How is it authenticating?

[@domesticcadiz]

I love this but I have never built my own extension before. Seems like there was a starting point that is further than I can get to right now. how do I go about starting to build my own extension?

[@code]

We have documentation on building your very first extension! code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-extension

[@aj_dev_smith]

This is fantastic! It really simplified getting a new Chat Participant registered for me. I do have one question that I can't seem to find an answer for from various searches. How can a Chat Participant access the current context? If I have a #file selected for example, or the current selected blog. I see it's available in references, but it's only information about the references, not the content. For my Chat Participant to be truly useful, I really next to provide the current context to the llm, similar to how @workspace works. Any ideas?

[@PotlaChowdary]

S letter not working in vs code solution please?

[@zanylyf]

day 2 of asking for a UI refresh of VS code!

[@wotcherbabe]

I have a question regarding an extension I am trying to create. While creating a new button, I am passing arguments like the data, and the response object. However when I try to use the response.markdown within the new register command function, I keep getting an error that Response stream is closed. Is there something I am doing wrong or can we not use the response object in this manner? this is a sample of my code: the new button creation: response.button({ title: 'Export', command: 'exportToJira', arguments: [summary, response] }); the register command function definition: vscode.commands.registerCommand('exportToJira', async (summary: string, chatResponse: any) => {}}

[@code]

Hi! I suggest you post in our extension development community: github.com/microsoft/vscode-discussions/discussions. Thanks!!

[@kas4u1]

Any update on this? Even though there is no error the stream keeps on closing in 1 seconds and I can’t access it after that. Is there a way to extend the lifetime of the stream?