Custom slash commands for Copilot Chat

[mjisaak]

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In VSCode, we have Agents and slash commands to simplify certain operations like /tests for generating tests for the selected code.
Is it possible to define custom commands that are simply an alias for a prompt? Like for example:

/extract - Extract the selected code into a separate function

[b8zeek]

It is possible but you would have to use the extension for that. There are Tasks but they don't have the access to the editor's context which would mean that they don't have the access to your code so they can't extract it. Custom extension is the solution for your issue.

Check the extension API, it shouldn't demand much work to create a feature like you mentioned above, link below:

https://code.visualstudio.com/api

Good luck Martin. 🍺

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[iuiu34]

Do we have an IDE agnostic solution for this?

cause chat is for several IDE's, not only vs

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[mreduar]

@mjisaak Greetings, did you find a solution for this requirement? It would be really useful for me.

[mjisaak]

@mreduar Unfortunately I didn't. Good luck!

[lc82111]

it would be helpful to have this feature.

[Sowmya0806]

I am exited to know if you have found any solution to create custom slash commands. I am trying create custom slash commands on top of github copilot extension that i created.

Eagerly waiting for a reply on the solution.

[Silverbullet069]

There aren't any custom slash commands now?