Does Vscode Copilot extension in Agent mode only works with Claude?

grill_gus

New agent mode for GitHub Copilot extension in VSCode using Claude as LLM is great but I want to try with other models. Even OpenAI model 4o is not working as Agent. I tried with Ollama and OpenRouter too. The problem is that once you connect using any other than Claude you can get the response from first request as text or as code depending on what you are asking but when it refers to a process that needs to execute and evaluate nothing...

Originally asked by Cesar Amadori on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I just tried this with the prompt from your question and model GPT-4.1 (Preview). For me it's working. I had to watch for confirmation prompts in the terminal (e.g. npx express-generator server --no-view asked if it was ok to proceed ) and in GitHub Copilot chat I had to say "ok" for it to take the next step at different times. It wasn't super clear that this is what needed to happen, though. So maybe it's not so much a model selection issue as much as the UX not making it easy enough for the user to find where they need to intervene.

Full answer by Thomas Mechelke: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/79581562 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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