[VS Code Insiders] Error during chat conversation with local AI model: Error: Response contained no choices. at Nj._provideLanguageModelResponse

[Yevhen-Myroshnychenko]

Type: Bug

I can't get, why do I get some errors from GitHub if I work with my local AI model ... ?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run local model.
2. Use your Copilot chat for conversation with your local model .
3. During conversation, at some poit, you will get an error:

Sorry, your request failed. Please try again.

Copilot Request id: 41341c58-9dee-439e-9695-ed68e835aa22

Reason: Response contained no choices.: Error: Response contained no choices. at Nj._provideLanguageModelResponse (/Applications/Visual Studio Code - Insiders.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/copilot/dist/extension.js:1707:12763) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:103:5)

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VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.119.0-insider (a08b83e, 2026-04-29T06:26:08+02:00)
OS version: Darwin arm64 25.4.0
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Apple M1 Max (10 x 2400)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled GPU0: VENDOR= 0x106b [Google Inc. (Apple)], DEVICE=0x0000 [ANGLE (Apple, ANGLE Metal Renderer: Apple M1 Max, Version 26.4.1 (Build 25E253))], DRIVER_VENDOR=Apple, DRIVER_VERSION=26.4.1 ACTIVE Machine model name: MacBookPro Machine model version: 18.4 direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: enabled_on trees_in_viz: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	2, 2, 2
Memory (System)	64.00GB (0.63GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 58f59e84-9746-49cc-aaf4-8acd0713c32e
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (6)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
superpowers-copilot-agents	ano	1.0.1
Ionide-fsharp	Ion	7.31.1
csdevkit	ms-	3.10.14
csharp	ms-	2.136.19
vscode-dotnet-pack	ms-	1.0.13
vscode-dotnet-runtime	ms-	3.0.0

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[Restrected]

I have the same issue constantly. with 120k context to spare.