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[Chat API Guide]: update for latest ChatFollowup interface #8930

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Expand Up @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Get more info about the [naming conventions for slash commands](#slash-command-n

### 4. Register follow-up requests

After each chat request, VS Code invokes follow-up providers to get suggested follow-up questions to show to the user. The user can then select the follow-up question, and immediately send it to the chat extension. Follow-up questions can provide inspiration to the user to take the conversation further, or to discover more capabilities of the chat extension.
After each chat request, VS Code invokes follow-up providers to get suggested follow-up questions to show to the user. The user can then select the follow-up question, and immediately send it to the chat extension. Use the [`ChatFollowupProvider`](/api/references/vscode-api#ChatFollowupProvider) API to register follow-up prompts of type [`ChatFollowup`](/api/references/vscode-api#ChatFollowup).

The following code snippet shows how to register follow-up requests in a chat extension:

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if (result.metadata.command === 'teach') {
return [{
prompt: 'let us play',
title: vscode.l10n.t('Play with the cat')
label: vscode.l10n.t('Play with the cat')
} satisfies vscode.ChatFollowup];
}
}
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