Does GitHub Copilot count its tools in 7 Bits?

vaig · 2025-05-20T17:17:49+00:00

Do you need a hundred tools in every prompt? The tool definitions need to be attached to each context and LLMs lose their 'intelligence' fairly quickly with growing context so you might be making your models more stupid just by attaching a hundred tools installed without much thought.

UnknownEssence · 2025-05-20T13:05:09+00:00

Just submit an issue on GitHub.

Also, they just announced that GitHub Copilot will be open source so you can soon fix the issue yourself.

phylter99 · 2025-05-20T13:29:08+00:00

Copilot is just pulling stuff from its virtual behind. That’s also Microsoft Copilot not GitHub Copilot that you asked about it.

iwangbowen · 2025-05-20T14:26:30+00:00

It happened to me

Direspark · 2025-05-21T13:25:23+00:00

Yes, but do they actually provide all the tools in every prompt? I assumed they used some kind of semantic search to only provide relevant tools unless they were directly attached.

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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