Agents are not visible

[galuszkak]

I tried to choose agent but they aren't visible. When I choose model it works but when I want to choose Agent it's not visible at all.

I can use agents in VS Code so not sure what could be wrong with my set up.

[austinolig]

Within the Agents section of the docs, there's a link to the Github Copilot documentation that has information about Supported clients and IDEs stating that Vim/Neovim does not have GitHub Copilot Extensions support.

[galuszkak]

Hi @austinolig - the first thing in README.md is that is has Agent Support:

CopilotChat.nvim is a Neovim plugin that brings GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities directly into your editor. It provides:

• 🤖 GitHub Copilot Chat integration with official model and agent support (GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and more)

I completely don't understand then why would you add :CopilotChatAgents command or add support for @ if you would always get None...

[austinolig]

I agree with you on that. I honestly didn't know how else I could provide a valuable response aside from pointing out that documentation. I was also trying to figure out how to get agents to work and was confused by what I discovered.

I think the problem may revolve around the misuse of the term "agent" in this context, as the documentation I shared doesn't refer to the feature as agents, but instead extensions.

Edit: As a next step, I'm starting to explore CodeCompanion as it seems to have agentic workflows as well as the chat buffer offered by this plugin.

[deathbeam]

the github copilot extensions were called extension agents at some point so I just went with that naming. Its likely their api changed and so the plugin do not works with them anymore, there is this PR that also completely removes the feature: #1029 (as it was never rly that useful) and replaces it with function calling and tools

[austinolig]

Makes sense. Browsing the extension library made me realize it wasn't really what I was looking for in the first place. I was expecting something about adding MCP servers, just like that PR you mentioned. Thanks