Flight Log / microsoft/vscode #255125
Add tooltips to chat context dropdown items for better discoverability — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/vscode on Jul 10, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +131 −32, 11 files, 0 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot attempted to add tooltips to chat context dropdown items in microsoft/vscode, touching 11 files with 131 additions and 32 deletions across five commits. Human review closed the pull request unmerged, logged as a burn after the reviewer asked for the native dropdown to be converted to an existing non-native dropdown in the repository.
“@copilot Currently this does not work. I want you to convert this native dropdown to use an existing implementation of non-native dropdown in this repository.”
— from the review (source)
From the pull request description
The chat panel attachment dropdown (gear icon) previously showed cryptic labels like "Prompt Files", "Instructions", "Tool Sets", etc. without any explanation of what each option does. Users had to guess or experiment to understand the functionality of each attachment type. This PR adds helpful too…
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- Jul 15, 2025closedulugbekna
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, microsoft/vscode#255125, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/microsoft/vscode/255125/
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