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Support custom inline suggestion snooze durations #288770
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I can only disable copilot in intervals of 5 minutes. If I wanted to disable it for e.g. 4 hours, then I have to spam click to get there. We should be able to input our own time we want copilot to remain disabled or be granted an easier way to achieve this.
I love how Zed handled its AI integration in this regard, because they also allow disabling copilot on specific files rather than an entire language.
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roblourens commentedon Feb 19, 2026
I think this refers to the "snooze"?
ulugbekna commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj) indeed, I would expect a "Custom time" in the Snooze quick pick to pick how much to snooze for
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sam-shubham commentedon Feb 21, 2026
Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj) i would love to take a stab on it..
can i get assigned!!
Kai-Rowan-the-AI commentedon Feb 23, 2026
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The custom inline suggestion snooze durations (#288770) is an interesting UX enhancement. I have experience with:
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This involves adding user-configurable snooze durations for Copilot inline suggestions, allowing users to customize how long suggestions are suppressed after dismissing them.
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Pengkun-ZHU commentedon Feb 27, 2026
Hi fellows Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj) roblourens Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna) Sam Huang (@celonymire) Kyle Cutler (@kycutler) , I'd like to have this feature for one of my own development, so I did some coding and managed to get it done, hopefully.
However, as Copilot extension is not available in the dev version, I cannot do a native validation for the feature. I had to circumvent the two checks below in chatStatusDashboard.ts:
After the hacking I was able to make a demonstration on the fix:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12f30c8d-04b2-46c1-baba-c5a13e72412c
I wonder whether I can file a PR for the fix? if so, could you kindly teach how can I gracefully validate it without the hacking regarding Copilot extension?
benibenj commentedon Mar 2, 2026
Yes, you can absolutely file a PR for this
Regarding validation without hacking around
canUseChat()andisEnabled():You don’t actually need the Copilot extension to test this. We have a sample extension for inline completions (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/main/inline-completions) that you can use as a workspace extension when running out of code-oss.
Here’s the idea:
Once you have any inline completion provider registered, the snooze command in the Command Palette should be available. The snooze feature is not tied specifically to Copilot Chat being activated, it works with any inline completion provider.
With that setup:
canUseChat().isEnabled()totrue.So I’d suggest:
Pengkun-ZHU commentedon Mar 2, 2026
Hi Benjamin Christopher Simmonds (@benibenj), many thanks for your quick response and instruction.
I just gave it a try, indeed now I can verify the fix without the hacking, although I found the inline completion extension is insufficient for showing the count-down(kindly correct if any misunderstanding).
Looking at canUseChat() in the main branch:
Line 376: Checks chatEntitlementService.sentiment.installed
Line 380-382: Checks ChatEntitlement which is about chat/sign-in status
Line 384: Checks quotas.chat and quotas.completions
They are all about Chat being installed, not inline completions
Luckily, as the autocompletion is now observable due to the extension, I am able to validate the fix even though the countdown is not showing:
Recalling my implementation, fractional minute is actually supported, so I tried 0.1 minute, i.e., 6 seconds, see recording below, where it shows after around 6 seconds the inline suggestion restores:
Screen.Recording.2026-03-03.at.01.22.40.MOV
On the other hand, during the validation showing in the recording, I found another possible bug, that is, after the snooze timeout, the inline suggestion won't be back online unless any related operation(e.g. creating new file) is conducted.
The reason is the snooze timer didn't notify the completion system to refresh when it expired, so completions only reappeared after user actions like typing or switching files.
In order to make the recording demonstrating the fix, I conveniently fixed this issue too. Shall I simply include it together with this PR or file a separate issue for that?
vs-code-engineering commentedon May 4, 2026
Sharing media from merged PR #298934 for verification:
Screen.Recording.2026-02-28.at.00.20.19.MOV
Screen.Recording.2026-03-03.at.01.22.40.MOV
Source PR: #298934