DUPLICATE: Will open-source Copilot allow not logging into GitHub account and running only local models?

[bartlettroscoe]

Will the open-source Copilot extension (and when it gets integrated into the open-source VSCode sources) allow a model where the user does not need to log into a GitHub account and can set up Copilot to only call locally hosted models? There are critical features to allow internal usage of VSCode + Copilot View, Edit, and Agent Modes in many institutions.

It is really important to know the answer to these questions up front before our institution invests any time with this VSCode Copilot open-source code base.

[bartlettroscoe]

FYI: Someone has already posted a PR to allow GitHub Copilot to run other OpenAPI-compatible local models:

• Make adding other OpenAI-Compatible providers possible vscode-copilot-chat#38

If that allows you to call an arbitrary URL (even localhost) with an API key, that should do it.

It looks like that PR will get merged at some point.

Now, what about not requiring GitHub logins to use Copilot Chat (View, Edit, and Agent modes)?

[Igorgro]

Linking similar issue: #246551

[bartlettroscoe]

Linking similar issue: #246551

That looks to be a 100% duplicate issue. (Not sure why I was not able to find that issue before I created this one.) I am okay closing this issue as a duplicate of #246551.