Please enable copilot chat and agent support

[gpetrov]

The current implementation of the github language server has only the inline completion enabled which without any additional prompting is pretty useless.

It seems that the copilot chat and agent support is already included in the language server, but not exposed for usage.

So please expose the copilot chat and agent support so we can do more advanced integrations in other code editors.

[tpope]

Request noted. Other interested parties are encouraged to 👍 this issue.

[mkonir0]

It looks like there is quite a bit of interest in it. We look forward to seeing if you'll process it. Thanks in advance!

[gpetrov]

Any new on this topic @tpope - there are already quite a lot 👍

Chat, agents and maybe tools support is very much needed as you can see.

[DanBradbury]

I was in need of chat for my own selfish purposes and wrote a plugin to mimic the functionality of CopilotChat.nvim in vimscript. Don't think this is the direction that github wants to go with exposing chat functionality but for the time being its working and I'm actively maintaining it to serve as a solution while we wait for official support.

https://github.com/DanBradbury/copilot-chat.vim

[brianhuster]

Chat, agents and maybe tools support is very much needed as you can see.

You can give goose a try. It is a CLI, so it can works with any editors, you can create an MCP server for Vim to make it integrate better with the editor. Goose also supports Github Copilot as a provider, it also works with builtin tools and MCP (though there are a few bugs I noticed recently).

If you use Neovim, avante.nvim is amazing. It is better than goose in my opinion and I think it is almost as good as VSCode Copilot's agent mode

[aabbabar]

is anyone able to provide any update on this please?

my employer is only allowing the official copilot nvim plugin (not allowing e.g. CopilotChat.nvim) - and having LLM chat functionality in the editor is starting to feel vital!

[brianhuster]

Isn't there a Github Copilot CLI already?

[JimmyBondie]

Are there any updates on this issue? I would really love to use the chat in the LSP server, because it is a very important feature.