Chat modes: is title an actual metadata ?

[paolomainardi]

Hi everyone, I am trying some of the suggested chat modes. I encountered this issue:

At least in the latest stable release, title metadata is not a valid keyword.

[aaronpowell]

No, it's not, but I wanted some way that you could add a title that didn't only rely on putting a level one heading in the Markdown.

[paolomainardi]

Ok thanks for your reply @aaronpowell

Sorry for asking here. It's not clear in the documentation whether the chat modes files can include other files. Custom prompts can, AFAIK.

[aaronpowell]

They are just a prompt at the end of the day, so they can use tools like fetch to pull in external resources, or look at other files on disk.

But note, we strongly discourage linked files in the repo currently as they are not very discoverable.

[paolomainardi]

@aaronpowell the custom prompts documentation emphasizes the feature of adding custom context using variables: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-customization#_prompt-file-structure

I've tested this on chat modes by always prompting to read a file, and it didn't work. I am going to report a complete, reproducible scenario.