In this video, I’ll show you how to customize chat in VS Code by creating your own Custom Chat Mode—using tools like codebase, search, fetch, and githubRepo etc. This setup gives you a smarter, more personalized AI coding assistant that actually understands your project and helps you get real work done.

🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:25 The Docs
02:08 Research Mode
05:30 SQL Optimizer Mode
07:20 Blog Mode
09:38 Wrap

🎙️ Featuring: Reynald Adolphe

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and powerful code editor developed by Microsoft, offering built-in support for multiple programming languages, debugging, and extensions. From this resource developers can learn about VSCode's features, extensions, and customization options to enhance their coding productivity and workflow.

Visual Studio Code

VS Code now supports custom chat modes that allow developers to create personalized AI assistants with specific instructions and tools. The feature enables creating specialized modes for research, SQL optimization, blog formatting, and other workflows by defining metadata, tools, and custom instructions in markdown files. Examples include a research mode that structures responses with overview, detailed explanation, citations, and next steps, and an SQL optimizer mode that provides query analysis, optimization suggestions, and reasoning.

Chat Mode Will Change How You Code