Github Copilot extension for Septic

[vetlek]

Github Copilot offers the opportunity for extending the functionality of the chat agent with custom extensions more. This can be as easy as giving some pre-prompts that can help giving better results or give access to documentation etc.

Possible pre-prompts:

• Give an description of the structure of septic configs
• Give the existing documentation of the different objects and calcs
• Give example of common config stuff like implementation of deadbands, state machines etc.
• Give documentation of the different errors from vscode and how to generally fix them

Extreme case: Give access to all Septic repos

[vetlek]

Even easier by integrating it into the existing extension https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/chat

[vetlek]

Features:

• Simplify selected calcs (using cursors)
• Refactor to jinja format
• Auto generate calcs from Text1
• Use Github token for accessing repos to give better examples
• Test logical expressions

Chat participants using RAG:

• scg (documentation of scg from repo)
• antiSeptic (documentation and test generation)
• doc (documentation of core Septic).

Host vector database in Radix. Utilize GitHub for authentication to database etc. Authentication API

[vetlek]

Suggest to simplify the CoPilot by using the options for creating custom prompts and instruction for the agent mode and remove the custom chat participant etc. Focus on creating tools that provides the context for the agent (documentation, files in context, etc.) and prompts.