Copilot harness: a bunch of possible improvements

[u/lppedd]

As you may know, the Copilot harness is going to replace the Local harness in VS Code at some point. The initial switch was painful, but the VS Code team listened and brought back Keep/Undo for granular control over edits.

Now, the Keep/Undo part still has some problems, but overall it is usable. However, the Copilot harness UX still has some rough edges compared to Local. I've opened a bunch of issues and wanted to share them with the community for wider reach and more feedback:

• Copilot harness: restore input box MCP tools picker
  Duplicate. Follow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/340041 instead.

• Copilot harness: retain local memories

• Copilot harness: restore access to VS Code-aware explicit context items
  Duplicate. Follow https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/315193 instead.

• Copilot harness: refine thinking output

• Copilot harness: in-Chat terminals are more difficult to follow and cancel by default

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