PRD: [VSC] Users can easily manage conversations with Cody

[taylorsperry]

Related Docs:

• PRD: Cody Chat and Commands

Description:

As a user, I want to have conversations with Cody without interrupting my flow. When I ask Cody a chat question, I want to be able to follow up on Cody's response with a new question. I also want to be able to organize several conversations with Cody by creating new chats, viewing old chats (persisted across sessions), deleting chats, and renaming chats. I want to be able to do all of this easily and intuitively so that I can spend my time getting the answers I need instead of figuring out how chatting with Cody works.

Objectives:

Chatting with Cody is easy and intuitive. Users don't have to think about how to chat with Cody because the core workflows (create, chat, view, delete, rename) are obvious.

Acceptance Criteria:

Acceptance Criteria:

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1. Chats support conversations consisting of multiple prompts and responses.
2. Users can create new chats, view old chats (persisted across sessions), and delete chats.

Design Tasks:

Design Tasks

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No tasks being tracked yet.

Engineering Tasks:

Engineering Tasks

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1. feat: add experimental chat panel #1486
   +0
2. VSCE: New Chat - LLM provider intergration #1526
   chat/commands dec-ga/vscode +2
   
3. change chat panel view column to beside #1698
   chat/commands +1
4. VSCE: New Chat panel delete history button not working #1699
   chat/commands +1
   
5. fix: save transcript to chat history on abort #1550
   chat/commands +1
6. P1: Users can easily edit and resubmit an existing prompt to get a new response. #1760
   chat/commands cody/vscode +2

After GA Tasks:

After GA

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1. Users can rename chats #1763
   after-dec chat/commands cody/vscode +3

[kalanchan]

@taylorsperry

This is largely completed with the new experimental chat panel, see #1486

Only item that is missing is being able to rename chats, is that a core requirement?

[taylorsperry]

Nah, renaming can be P1 (but it's a feature ChatGPT supports, so I think users will expect it).

[taylorsperry]

Related issue to add shortcuts that make it easier to navigate between editing code and chatting with Cody.