Copilot Chat in JetBrains IDEs (GA) - Feedback

[Akash1134]

The purpose of this discussion is to collect feedback from our Copilot Chat users in JetBrains IDEs.

Following our Private Beta, we are thrilled to announce Copilot Chat in JetBrains IDEs is now generally available (GA) 🎉

Driven by GPT-4, GitHub Copilot Chat provides instant guidance directly within various JetBrains IDEs, such as PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, Rider, and more. This contextually-aware tool tailors suggestions to your specific coding tasks and even allows explicitly adding files for reference. It empowers developers to innovate efficiently by assisting with complex concepts, code explanations, unit testing, and many more use cases, all while effortlessly adjusting to your preferred language style.

How to get started?

• Using GitHub Copilot Chat in your JetBrains IDE
• If you were already using Private Beta – No further action is required. You can continue using the chat feature as usual.
• If you haven’t enabled Chat and want to use GitHub Copilot Chat in JetBrains IDEs
• Copilot Individual users: You automatically have access to the chat within JetBrains IDEs.
• Copilot Business and Enterprise users: Your organization admins will need to grant you access to Copilot chat in IDEs. Once you have access, please consult our getting started guide

[MementoRC]

After recent feedback, the chat window seems broken, the first few questions are answered, but then the later questions simply disappear as if sent to the bot, but no change (scrolling window with answer) is seen, so for each question, one has to start a new chat. Apart from that overall very convenient and useful to have the copilot right there, next to the work code

[MadhuMathiR]

Veru useful

[okgLq]

[rickvdwiel]

Nicly done, thanks for the best

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[AndresHale]

+1

[irving-vale]

In the new update, I've been having issues with the chat. The first question gets answered, but the following one stops working; it doesn't respond at all, nor does the new question appear. Additionally, if I work with two IntelliJ windows, after the first question, when I click to send, the chat from the other window I have open pops up.

[shouyangchen]

+1

[rickvdwiel]

Thanks for the goo luck

[zjj273]

+1

[Wuyun1921]

1

[dejan2609]

Issues while upgrading Github Copilot from 1.4.0.4986 -->> 1.5.0.5148 (IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 Beta on Windows OS).

Environment:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 Beta (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-241.14494.17, built on March 6, 2024
Licensed to IntelliJ IDEA EAP user: Dejan Stojadinović
Expiration date: April 5, 2024
Runtime version: 17.0.10+8-b1207.6 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 11.0
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Cores: 8
Non-Bundled Plugins:
  com.intellij.guice (241.14494.17)
  com.github.copilot (1.4.19.4986)
  com.jetbrains.packagesearch.intellij-plugin (241.0.8)
  org.intellij.scala (2024.1.9)
Kotlin: 241.14494.17-IJ

Note: it seems that Avast antivirus is blocking it:

[dejan2609]

Update for Linux: plugin version 1.5.0.5148 works on Ubuntu (IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.4).

Can't confirm issues mentioned by others above: Copilot Chat works for me as expected (for multiple consecutive questions, that is).

Environment:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.4 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-233.14475.28, built on February 13, 2024
Licensed to Dejan Stojadinović
You have a perpetual fallback license for this version.
Subscription is active until September 28, 2025.
Runtime version: 17.0.10+1-b1087.17 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Linux 6.5.0-25-generic
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 1978M
Cores: 8
Registry:
  editor.minimap.enabled=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
  AWSCloudFormation (233.13763.5)
  org.intellij.plugins.hcl (233.13135.65)
  org.jetbrains.plugins.go-template (233.11799.172)
  org.jetbrains.plugins.go (233.14475.9)
  com.intellij.guice (233.11799.196)
  com.intellij.aqua (233.14475.49)
  com.github.copilot (1.5.0.5148)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.core (233.14475.28)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.binary.files (233.11799.267)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.rfs (233.14475.28)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.metastore.core (233.13135.65)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.flink (233.13135.103)
  com.intellij.gwt (233.14475.28)
  com.jetbrains.packagesearch.intellij-plugin (233.11800.8)
  com.intellij.tide (233.14475.56)
  mdx.js (233.11799.172)
  mobi.hsz.idea.gitignore (4.5.2)
  org.intellij.scala (2023.3.27)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.kafka (233.13135.103)
  aws.toolkit (2.11-233)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.spark (233.13135.103)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.zeppelin (233.13135.65)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools (233.13135.65)
Kotlin: 233.14475.28-IJ
Current Desktop: ubuntu:GNOME

[thiago-marquezini]

It keeps failing after a few messages. Using Rider

[Akash1134]

Hi @thiago-marquezini , We'r sorry for the inconvenience caused. The new version (1.5.0.5148) containing a fix for this issue is now available. Please update the version and let us know if that helps.

[krlc]

@Akash1134 even in the latest version (1.5.0.5148) there is no way to make Copilot repeat an attempt (no 'try again' button) when questions fail, and they do fail really often. I frequently get 40-60% of a response, then "Oops, no response has returned" error (or no response from the start).

And the workaround is not exactly convenient:

1. Scroll up until my question
2. Select it (using a mouse)
3. Copy
4. Delete the failed attempt (using a mouse)
5. Paste, Send
6. Another error? Go to 1.

[vkononov]

I have a business license, I am an admin. I've enabled Github Copilot for IDEs, and it works in VSCode. Why am I still seeing this message in Rubymine?

[karabasosman]

Did you update the plugin ?

[EoinMcUF]

Also getting this issue

[vkononov]

@karabasosman Thanks. Upgrading to v1.5.0.5148 and restarting Jetbrains did the trick.

[jfredt]

Could the issue be related to the version of the plugin, and should it be updated to resolve this?

[Randname666]

Currently, the plugin neither automatically retries nor warns the user when it runs into a network issue ? When a network issue happens, including temporary hiccups, the plugin will simply show "Responding..." indefinitely on each and every question asked from that point until restarting the whole IDE. Cancelling reply or deleting current conversation won't resolve the issue.

Environment:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.4 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-233.14475.28, built on February 13, 2024
（Licensing info omitted）
Runtime version: 17.0.10+1-b1087.17 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 10.0
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 1024M
Cores: 8
Registry:
  ide.experimental.ui=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
  com.intellij.zh (233.287)
  com.intellij.spring.websocket (233.11799.196)
  com.github.copilot (1.4.19.4986)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.core (233.14475.28)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.binary.files (233.11799.267)
  com.intellij.bigdatatools.rfs (233.14475.28)
  JRebelPlugin (2024.1.1)
Kotlin: 233.14475.28-IJ

Example of the network issue:

2024-03-08 15:18:31,086 [1524543]   WARN - #copilot - [default] Error sending telemetry FetchError: read ECONNRESET
    at fetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\node_modules\@adobe\helix-fetch\src\fetch\index.js:99:11)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at cachingFetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\node_modules\@adobe\helix-fetch\src\fetch\index.js:288:16)
    at LG.fetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\lib\src\network\helix.ts:78:22) {
  type: 'system',
  _name: 'FetchError',
  code: 'ECONNRESET',
  errno: -4077,
  erroredSysCall: 'read'
}

[b-bokma]

How can I map key binding for the chat window ?
I can only see settings for the regular copilot integration in the editor itself

[rob1997]

try Ctrl + Alt + S -> Keymaps -> Plugins -> GitHub Copilot is the only place to change key shortcuts

[jfredt]

Do you think the current process for changing key bindings is intuitive enough, or would you suggest improvements?

[Hemant-GH]

They claim it uses GPT4, but when asked the same copilot chat says it uses GPT3 and isn't aware of GPT4 in IntelliJ. VSCode mentions about GPT-4

[BewaAutomatisierung-RD]

In Rider it also uses GPT3 and has no knowledge of GPT4

[Jenverse]

We use GPT-4. I understand the answer to this question is not what we do today and we would work on getting this fixed but we are on GPT-4.

[ervitis]

In my case it's the same, it uses the GPT3 model

[MaikPeters1511]

bei mir kommt gpt 4o

[aGitForEveryone]

When using the /docs command, the reply will include the full function body. Can you consider just replying with the docstring and to skip the function itself. The function code is just a copy of what is in file, is irrelevant for the docstring and just adds noise to the answer.

[Pioneer220]

Thank you for your suggestion about the /docs command. We understand that returning just the docstring instead of the entire function body would make the response clearer and more useful.

[Pioneer220]

1. Proposed Change
   Only Show Docstring: We can modify the command so it only returns the docstring, skipping the function code.
2. Benefits
   Less Clutter: Users get straight to the important information.
   Easier to Read: It simplifies the output and improves user experience.

[yaroslav-tsarenko]

i can't write new questions after the previous, chat only answer on one questions, then if i try to make more request, nothing happen

[Jenverse]

We'r sorry for the inconvenience caused. The new version (1.5.0.5148) containing a fix for this issue is now available. Please update the version and let us know if that helps.

[jfredt]

If the issue persists even after updating to version 1.5.0.5148, what additional steps can users take to troubleshoot or report the problem more effectively?

[Jarzka]

Any plans for implementing "Inline chat" functionality, similarly to VS Code, which allows Copilot to make edits directly to code files?

[aubrey-ford-nutrien]

I'm slowly moving over to Cursor (fork of VSCode) because this and many other AI features are missing in Jetbrains IDEs

[sabihoshi]

This seems to be available now in the latest nightly build. But I am not sure since when was it added. Perhaps around August 16 when there were errors about "Inline Chat". There is no hotkey for it yet. Select text and the button will appear beside the line number, or Shift+Shift, then Open GitHub Copilot Inline Chat

[nicocanali]

The hotkey is Ctrl + Shift + I (on Mac)

[shivkaushal]

Anybody know if there's a way of accepting the inline chat suggestions without needing to switch to using a mouse? 🤞

[sharkBLN]

write some funny fancy monster reiten

[zbiggs1]

My organization just enabled the chat feature and after updating the plugin I just get an error.

[mavola]

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.4 (Ultimate Edition)

[changshunxu520]

What can I do, he keeps not working

[changshunxu520]

2024-03-21 11:26:12,393 [6623776] WARN - #copilot - [default] Error sending telemetry FetchError: read ECONNRESET at fetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\node_modules\@adobe\helix-fetch\src\fetch\index.js:99:11) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at cachingFetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\node_modules\@adobe\helix-fetch\src\fetch\index.js:288:16) at HG.fetch (C:\snapshot\copilot-client\lib\src\network\helix.ts:78:22) { type: 'system', _name: 'FetchError', code: 'ECONNRESET', errno: -4077, erroredSysCall: 'read' }
What can I do, he keeps not working
@Jenverse

[changshunxu520]

Is there no one to solve the problem or something?

[changshunxu520]

When I first open the idea, GitHub Copilot can still work and prompt messages, but after working for a while, it keeps spinning in circles without any prompt messages. Why is this? GitHub Copilot chat can still respond normally at this time. Can I see the logs somewhere?
Still the same problem

[tomerc]

Is there a way to have copilot generate commit messages based on the files in the changelist?

[evrenesat]

As a workaround;

• Create a kb shortcut for "Copy as patch to clipboard".
• Create a scratch plain text file (maybe rename it to reuse).
• Use the shortcut, paste, ask for commit message in chat.
• Copy/paste.

These steps even can be automated by recording them as a macro. Now only if Copilot team would be nice enough to do that for us...

Recently I start to use Tabnine for chat, it's autocomplete isn't as good as copilot, but chat is much better with claude 3.5, custom system prompt and custom slash commands, so I can reuse different kind of summary prompts according to nature of the changeset.

[MarcioBarrientos]

With the new update (1.5.0.5148) I can't deploy to vercel if Copilot is enabled on Webstorm (2023.3.4) + Windows (11)
When I use the command "vercel" in terminal I get this error:
Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, read

That error is gone if I disable copilot or close webstorm.

[Pioneer220]

1. Disable Copilot: If you need to deploy, temporarily disabling GitHub Copilot may be the quickest fix.
2. Close WebStorm: Alternatively, closing the IDE before running the deployment command can also resolve the issue

[luggie]

I see that there's currently no support to set up a keyboard shortcut for "explain this" (as well as any other other function from the right-click context menu of the copilot) functions(s) in pycharm. any workaround/plans on implementing this soonishly?

[cjmcdonald42]

I'm a teacher learning Python and have found GitHub CoPilot Chat to be an invaluable resource when I need mentoring. Thank you for this tool!

[muttayoshi]

Hi,
I've been using Copilot for over a year now, and it’s been a great help. However, over the past month, the autocomplete feature has been performing really poorly—so much so that I ended up turning it off. It used to be able to "guess" what I was trying to write pretty accurately, but now it often suggests incomplete or error-prone code.

Please look into this and fix it if possible. Or, if there’s a way to reset it back to how it used to work, I’d really appreciate your help.

Thanks!

Example autocomplete:

[devmi]

Please add to IntelliJ Copilot plugin this awesome feature from VS Code Copilot extension: Add chat context. I'm a paying Copilot customer and I'm considering Cursor as an alternative. See also this post

[DavidSeptimus]

It's available in the Agent Mode preview. I think it's only a matter of time/prioritization before it's integrated into the other modes.

[xuchangshun2014]

Does this tool really require that much memory? This is the memory usage after I've had it running for a while. If that's expected, the memory usage seems way too high. When it first started, it even took up as much as 10GB of memory

[Eskibear]

what's the plugin version? Can you try the latest see if this issue is still there?

btw pls open issue at https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback/issues for better tracking.

[xuchangshun2014]

This is the version of Copilot I'm using.
Here is the link to the related defect. https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback/issues/177

[Surinder-dev]

It keeps thinking

[JyothiPasam1]

Me too...facing same issue

[phanthaiduong22]

Based on the icon, I’m assuming this is not the latest plugin version, right? Could you help update the plugin? If the issue still persists, can you create an issue at: https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback/issues

[wild-endeavor]

can i put in my own openai api key so i can unlock additional models?

[Righcfd]

posit-dev/publisher#2658 (comment)

[DavidSeptimus]

It's been quite some time since I recall reading about the Agent Mode preview and only today did I finally see that tab in the Copilot sidebar (I've always been on the nightly channel) appear for the first time.

My first attempt using it with GPT-4.1 (I typically use Claude, but didn't bother changing the default was nearly flawless. The aim was to implement a bunch of configurable settings in an established codebase (~100,000 lines of TypeScript) and then implement the actual functionality for those settings.

To fully implement 4 new settings, it took 4 prompts. Two prompts for initial implementation of the settings and related features (by my own choice rather than necessity) and two more to refine the implementation to what it would have looked like if I wrote the implementation myself. The whole process took 5 minutes instead of ~30-40 minutes that it would have taken to manually perform the task.

The agent had no problem combing through the codebase to quickly find the relevant files for both reference and modification.

The process of reviewing and incorporating changes was seamless. I very much appreciated being able to view the changes inline, make revisions without first applying the initial changeset, and being able to incorporate my own small manual changes (e.g. removing comments) when working with the agent's outputs.

The only issue I ran into was that the apply/discard buttons for individual changes would sometimes render outside the appropriate block, making it impossible to click on them (they're only visible when hovering over the block).

Overall, I found the experience far superior to edit mode for applying changes directly to the codebase.

[Pindwin]

One feature that would be really useful would be giving a chat access to local git, so that it can go through diff is search for "suspicious" changes. This is not unlike what CoPilot already does on GitHub based repo - but since my organisation code is hosted elswhere, I'm not able to access it. For context: I'm developing in Unity and have heavy emphasis on automatic asset generation - so my yaml based text diffs can get pretty lengthy.

Is such integration even on the radar?

[Eskibear]

In agent mode, technically you should be able to ask Copilot to inspect suspicious git changes, as it can run git commands in terminal can get the output as part of the context.

[Suryakanth988]

2025-06-13 11:16:44,930 [ 102206] INFO - #copilot - [INFO] [default] [2025-06-13T05:46:44.925Z] [fetchChat] engine https://api.githubcopilot.com/chat
2025-06-13 11:16:46,824 [ 104100] INFO - #copilot - [INFO] [default] [2025-06-13T05:46:46.820Z] request.response: [https://api.githubcopilot.com/chat/completions] took 1895 ms
2025-06-13 11:16:46,824 [ 104100] WARN - #copilot - [ERROR] [chat fetch] [2025-06-13T05:46:46.822Z] Unhandled status from server:,429,quota exceeded
Please Assist for this issue #157494

[jiec-msft]

Will the log out and log in again help? Considering there might be some propagation delay, please try again sometimes later. If the issue still persists, please create an issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback

Also, please try upgrade to the latest stable plugin 1.5.46-243 if not.

[kunalshah]

1. There's no agent mode button like the one in vs code version of github copilot
2. There is no MCP support like VS code and XCode versions of the github copilot
3. If the user selects "/add_open_files", all files are added correctly. however, it is not possible to clear the context. there should be the one such option e.g. "/"clear_context". I have had large number of files added to the context mistake that I had to keep clicking one by one to remove from the context.

[Eskibear]

There's no agent mode button like the one in vs code version of github copilot
There is no MCP support like VS code and XCode versions of the github copilot

You need to turn on Editor Preview Features as Agent mode is now in public preview. See https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback/wiki/FAQ#i-cannot-see-preview-features

however, it is not possible to clear the context.

Does /clear work for you?

[kunalshah]

It's weird that I can see the Agent mode in new installation of Android Studio and latest install of Github copilot plugin from JetBrains marketplace. It doesn't work for existing Android Studio installations that I upgraded to the latest version. I have uninstalled and installed Github copilot plugin for so many times but still can't see the Agent mode even though my Android Studio was upgraded to the latest i.e. "Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2 Patch 1".

[BroccoliGames]

Copilot often freezes while responding. The response remains unfinished and nothing happens. You have to stop it manually and repeat the request, but it often freezes again. Because of this, the Copilot is often useless for me. Using Rider 2022.2.2 and 1.4.6.4092 Copilot

[Eskibear]

Using Rider 2022.2.2 and 1.4.6.4092 Copilot

The latest Copilot version is 1.5.47. pls update both Rider and Copilot and give it a try.

[SteenSchutt]

Despite having disabled Copilot autocomplete, I am unable to turn on PHPStorm's own local full line completion feature. This is really frustrating, because I find the multi line completions very distracting, but do enjoy having some degree of completion. I still want the other features in the plugin, but the full line completion setting is just completely disabled as long as the Copilot plugin is enabled.

[Eskibear]

1. JetBrains IDE version should >= 2024.2
2. The latest Copilot plugin version is 1.5.47

[HariKishoreSaithala]

Not upto the mark

[MJEPKOECH-safari]

I keep getting this error on copilot intelliJ plugin not sure where the issue is. The web one works just fine.

[eec-markj]

I'm having the same issue

[andfinally]

In the Jetbrains plugin, the left margin is too small, so the left side of numbered lists isn't fully visible.

I'm on PhpStorm 2025.1.3 with the Night Owl (Material) theme, but the same problem appears in Darcula.

[EDIT] I see this issue is to do with the Material UI plugin.