Copilot Chat v0.33.2025103101: CLI & Model Fixes

TL;DR

• Refactored Copilot CLI loading and model fetching for stability
• Fixed thinking content appearing in custom model history
• Added support for file content changes in cloud agent
• No breaking changes

New

• Cloud agent file content support — Cloud agent now handles file content change parts, expanding what it can track and respond to.
• xAI BYOK models from API — xAI bring-your-own-key models now pull directly from the API instead of hardcoded values.
• Language-specific context providers — Context provider experiments now read values specific to language ID, enabling more targeted behavior.
• Self-hosted model configuration — You can now configure a different model for self-hosting deployments.
• Edit session tracking for CLI — Copilot CLI now adopts edit session tracking for better change monitoring.
• Response rate logging — Added response rate metrics to logs for better diagnostics.

Fixed

• Thinking content in custom model history — Removed thinking content from appearing in chat history when using custom models.
• Auto warnings — Suppressed warnings from auto to reduce noise.
• Completion panel — Brought back completion panel that was missing.
• VSCode engine compatibility — Bumped engine version to fix compatibility with VSCode core after recent changes.

Under the Hood

• CLI loading refactor — Refactored how Copilot CLI loads and fetches models for cleaner architecture.
• Auto header cleanup — Simplified how auto passes headers to reduce complexity.
• Web search citations — Removed raw citation text emission for cleaner web search results.
• Notebook inline prompts — More specialized prompts for notebook inline editing.

Update with: npm install -g @microsoft/copilot-cli@latest or check the release page for VSCode extension updates.

Source: Copilot Chat