| # Chat Tutorial | |
| Visual Studio Code's Copilot Chat architecture enables extension authors to integrate with the GitHub Copilot Chat experience. A chat extension is a VS Code extension that uses the Chat extension API by contributing a Chat participant. Chat participants are domain experts that can answer user queries within a specific domain. | |
| This GitHub Copilot Extension sample shows: | |
| - How to contribute a chat participant to the GitHub Copilot Chat view. | |
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| Documentation can be found here: | |
| - https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/chat | |
| - https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/chat-tutorial | |
| ## Running the Sample | |
| - Run `npm install` in terminal to install dependencies | |
| - Run the `Run Extension` target in the Debug View. This will: | |
| - Start a task `npm: watch` to compile the code | |
| - Run the extension in a new VS Code window | |
| - You will see the @tutor chat participant in the GitHub Copilot Chat view | |