However, Microsoft confirmed plans to transition its functionality into the open Copilot Chat extension over the coming months, consolidating all major AI features into a single open-source module.

Microsoft just made GitHub Copilot free and open source software under the MIT License. As of today, you can fork it, modify ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

See VS Code Team's System Prompts for Copilot Chat, Now Open Source. By David Ramel; 06/30/2025 ... It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as ...