Update to chat sessions proposed API (#7366)

Author: osortega

package.json

@@ -3278,7 +3278,7 @@
 			"chat/chatSessions": [
 				{
 					"command": "pr.openDescription",
-					"when": "chatSessionType == github.pullRequest.codingAgent"
+					"when": "chatSessionType == copilot-swe-agent"
 				}
 			]
 		},

src/@types/vscode.proposed.chatSessionsProvider.d.ts

@@ -5,30 +5,30 @@
 
 declare module 'vscode' {
 	/**
-	 * Provides a list of chat sessions
+	 * Provides a list of information about chat sessions.
 	 */
-	export interface ChatSessionsProvider extends Disposable {
+	export interface ChatSessionItemProvider {
 		/**
-		 * Type to identify providers.
+		 * Label of the extension that registers the provider.
 		 */
-		readonly chatSessionType: string;
+		readonly label: string;
 
 		/**
-		 * Fired when chat sessions change.
+		 * Event that the provider can fire to signal that chat sessions have changed.
 		 */
-		readonly onDidChangeChatSessionContent: Event<void>;
+		readonly onDidChangeChatSessionItems: Event<void>;
 
 		/**
-		 * Provide a list of chat sessions.
-		 * */
-		provideChatSessions(token: CancellationToken): Thenable<ChatSessionContent[]>;
+		 * Provides a list of chat sessions.
+		 */
+		provideChatSessionItems(token: CancellationToken): ProviderResult<ChatSessionItem[]>;
 	}
 
-	export interface ChatSessionContent {
+	export interface ChatSessionItem {
 		/**
-		 * Identifies the session
-		 *		 */
-		uri: Uri;
+		 * Unique identifier for the chat session.
+		 */
+		id: string;
 
 		/**
 		 * Human readable name of the session shown in the UI
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ declare module 'vscode' {
 	}
 
 	export namespace chat {
-		export function registerChatSessionsProvider(provider: ChatSessionsProvider): Disposable;
+		export function registerChatSessionItemProvider(chatSessionType: string, provider: ChatSessionItemProvider): Disposable;
 	}
 }

src/extension.ts

@@ -411,15 +411,17 @@ async function deferredActivate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext, showPRControll
 
 	const copilotRemoteAgentManager = new CopilotRemoteAgentManager(credentialStore, reposManager, telemetry);
 	context.subscriptions.push(copilotRemoteAgentManager);
-	context.subscriptions.push(vscode.chat.registerChatSessionsProvider({
-		chatSessionType: 'github.pullRequest.codingAgent',
-		provideChatSessions: async (token) => {
-			return await copilotRemoteAgentManager.provideChatSessions(token);
-		},
-		// Events not used yet, but required by interface.
-		onDidChangeChatSessionContent: new vscode.EventEmitter<void>().event,
-		dispose: () => { }
-	}));
+	context.subscriptions.push(vscode.chat.registerChatSessionItemProvider(
+		'copilot-swe-agent',
+		{
+			label: vscode.l10n.t('GitHub Copilot Coding Agent'),
+			provideChatSessionItems: async (token) => {
+				return await copilotRemoteAgentManager.provideChatSessions(token);
+			},
+			// Events not used yet, but required by interface.
+			onDidChangeChatSessionItems: new vscode.EventEmitter<void>().event,
+		}
+	));
 
 	const prTree = new PullRequestsTreeDataProvider(telemetry, context, reposManager, copilotRemoteAgentManager);
 	context.subscriptions.push(prTree);

src/github/copilotApi.ts

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export interface RemoteAgentJobResponse {
 	}
 }
 
-export interface ChatSessionWithPR extends vscode.ChatSessionContent {
+export interface ChatSessionWithPR extends vscode.ChatSessionItem {
 	pullRequest: PullRequestModel;
 }
 

src/github/copilotRemoteAgent.ts

@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ export class CopilotRemoteAgentManager extends Disposable {
 			const sessions = await capi.getAllCodingAgentPRs(this.repositoriesManager);
 			return sessions.map(session => {
 				return {
-					uri: vscode.Uri.parse(`github://coding-agent/${session.id}`),
+					id: `${session.id}`,
 					label: session.title || `Session ${session.id}`,
 					iconPath: undefined,
 					pullRequest: session