/ide support with other IDEs like Visual Studio (not VSCode)

[sailro]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

We need proper documentation of the internals of the /ide support

Additional context

I made a VS extension (https://github.com/sailro/CopilotCliIde) by understanding how the current copilot-cli / VSCode link is working:

• discovery with lock files
• mcp server on top of http/named pipes
• tools like get_selection, get_diagnostics, update_session_name.
• SSE when a file is selected, or the selection changed in the IDE.

I did not find any documentation or code samples about this. Especially regarding diff support which I would like to implement (and it seems it is not working for now in both VSCode & Insiders).

Also I spotted that the selected file is displayed with a specific and hardcoded color depending on the ideName in the lock file:

• blue for VS Code
• cyan for VS Code Insiders
• white for others (perhaps you should add purple for Visual Studio :p)

Any pointers appreciated !
Thanks!

[laeubi]

That would be great to know - I would like to have integration for Eclipse as well!