Copilot Chat v0.33.2025110604: Prompt & Tool Updates

TL;DR

• Model prompt refinements and Anthropic memory tool gating
• Tool ordering and schema improvements for better reliability
• Enhanced logging and error handling for debugging

New

• Tool call logging — Added logging for tool execution results and errors to improve debugging and observability.
• Inline chat and replace-tool — New tooling for inline chat operations and code replacement workflows.

Fixed

• Conversation feature comment tracking — Convo feature now properly follows comments in context.
• Embeddings-matched tools ordering — Tools are now appended at the end instead of the start for better prioritization.
• GitHub auth permissiveness — Improved GitHub authentication handling for edge cases.
• Anthropic memory tool gating — Native memory tool now gates by model capability to prevent incompatibility.
• Memory operation tool schema — Updated schema in package.json for consistency.
• Telemetry error messages — Improved error message clarity in telemetry reporting.
• Agent file context contribution — PromptFileContextContribution now works correctly for agent files.

Changed

• Model prompt updates — Multiple refinements to model prompts for improved behavior and consistency.
• Git commit message generation — Switched back to gpt-4.1 for commit message generation.
• Settings cleanup — Removed old model configuration settings.
• Tool management — Removed runSubagent tool; tools now set in savePrompt.

Update via VS Code extensions or npm install @vscode/copilot-chat@0.33.2025110604.

Source: Copilot Chat