Copilot Summarization Needs (Better) Disable Setting #281732
Description
- Copilot Chat Extension Version: 0.33.4
- VS Code Version: 1.106.3
- OS Version: Ubuntu 25.04
- Feature (e.g. agent/edit/ask mode):
- Selected model (e.g. GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet): Any
- Logs:
Reproduction Steps:
- Hit a summarization window
- that's it
Your summarization modes are atrociously bad, and even if I wait for it to finish, if I say something like "stop summarizing" after, it'll think it's smart and needs to summarize again.
There needs to be a way to COMPLETELY disable history summarization. It does not provide anything useful. If there is state to be retained, that's what MCP servers and external files/tooling is for, rather an a destructive and incorrect history summary that gets retriggered every 5 seconds and completely throws the LLM off track.
Truncation is better than whatever this is doing. Please provide a way to disable it.
Also, while we're at it: whoever wrote the virtual tool groups thing lied about it only applying on tool set sizes >128, unless you guys changed that, in which case, could you not? it does in fact disable tools that it shouldn't.