Chat extension availability

[castrob]

Hi! I would like to create a copilot-like extension from this project. I've seen that the Chat Service is defined in missing-services.ts, but it has its own Service Override. I've tried to make a simple chat extension without success (when using the workbench to load the chat view, it simply doesn't show), is there's any support for this kind of extension? I think that the suggestion/completion api is supported, but I can't find a way to implement chat workflows...

[CGNonofr]

It may be more complicated than that. Since the last version, adding the chat service override does nothing if there is no chat extension registered and declared.

The default chat extension should be declared in the product configuration (check your vscode product.json file) and I'm not sure it's possible to implement the same thing as the copilot extension on your own. Also, the VSCode code itself references copilot directly 🤔

Extension are allowed to extend the copilot features, but the copilot extension needs to be there 🤔

Note that all other AI extension are creating their own panel and are not using the VSCode integrated.

Microsoft just open sourced copilot though, and things are moving quickly

I'm interested in a demo extension implementing it though (:

[castrob]

Thanks for the clarification! I'll keep working on a way to build a Copilot-like extension for my project. Once I get it working, I'd love to share a demo here!