How to call Copilot CLI from extension

[DanaMartens]

Now that VS Code can create and manage Copilot CLI sessions, is there a supported way for extensions to reuse that CLI runtime instead of bundling or requiring users to install it separately?

[alefragnani]

Hi @DanaMartens,

Besides the announcement of that integration, I didn’t notice any new API being released, nor proposed. So, I don’t think to be possible for extensions to reuse or interact with it.

I would suggest you to open a feature request in the VS Code repo (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues), providing more details of your ideas and requirements of integration, so the team could take a look and evaluate for future releases.

Hope this helps