Alex Ross

This commit primarily focuses on **documentation maintenance** by updating and correcting third-party legal notices. It **corrects** an erroneous version number for the `microsoft/vscode-mssql` dependency in `ThirdPartyNotices.txt`, reverting it from `1.34.0` to `1.0.0`. Furthermore, the `cli/ThirdPartyNotices.txt` file receives an updated copyright year for `num-conv` and expanded MIT license texts for several `zbus` related packages. This work ensures the **accuracy and completeness of open-source compliance documentation** for both the main project and its CLI component.

This commit performs **maintenance** by **skipping a flaky test** within the **`vscode-api-tests` extension**. Specifically, the test case verifying that `&&` operators are converted to `;` on PowerShell, located in `chat.runInTerminal.test.ts`, is now skipped on all platforms. This action addresses intermittent failures and improves the overall stability and reliability of the test suite.

This commit performs a **maintenance** task by **bumping the project's version number**, as indicated by issue #306223. This update typically affects the core **build configuration** and signals a new release cycle or development snapshot for the entire application or library. It ensures that subsequent builds and deployments correctly reflect the current state of the codebase, providing a clear version identifier for consumers and internal tracking.

Bump version (#4815)

This commit performs **maintenance** by updating the TextMate grammars and dependency manifests for several language extensions. Specifically, the **syntax highlighting** rules for **PHP**, **LaTeX**, **SQL**, **C#**, and **Julia** have been updated in their respective `syntaxes/*.tmLanguage.json` files. This ensures more accurate and up-to-date code coloring and parsing for these languages within the editor. Additionally, the `cgmanifest.json` files for these extensions have been updated to reflect current dependency information, improving overall project hygiene and dependency tracking.

This commit **adopts a new combination tool approval API** within the **Copilot extension**, specifically impacting how VS Code commands are confirmed for execution. It **updates the `vscodeCmdTool.tsx` module** by modifying the `getConfirmationMessages` function. This change enhances user prompts by including the command ID in execution confirmation messages and introduces a new `approveCombination` message for more explicit tool approval scenarios. This **new feature** improves the clarity and control users have over automated command execution by Copilot tools.

This commit introduces a **new capability** to the **chat feature**, enabling users to approve specific **tool and argument combinations** for language model tools. It **refactors the tool invocation confirmation service** (`languageModelToolsConfirmationService.ts`) to manage combination-level approvals, enhancing user control and security. The change affects the **chat tool confirmation UI**, the underlying **language model tool services**, and adds a new `toolInvocationApproveCombination` to the **extension API proposals**. This provides more granular control over tool execution, allowing users to auto-approve specific tool invocations based on their parameters.

Better project setup skill description (#4424)

This commit **re-enables the API proposal version check** within the **CI/CD pipeline**, reversing a previous change that had inadvertently disabled this critical validation step. It specifically restores the functionality of the `.github/workflows/api-proposal-version-check.yml` **GitHub Actions workflow**. This **fix** ensures that all new API proposals are properly validated for version compatibility, maintaining the integrity and stability of the project's API surface. Additional logging was also introduced to monitor the re-enabled check's operation.

This commit **fixes a bug** within the **GitHub Actions workflow** configuration for `api-proposal-version-check.yml`. It corrects an incorrect API call, changing `listWorkflowRunsForWorkflow` to the proper `listWorkflowRuns`. This **maintenance update** ensures the workflow can accurately retrieve workflow run information, preventing potential failures in the automated API proposal version checks.

This commit performs **maintenance** on the project's **CI/CD pipeline** by rerunning a previously failed **API version check**. It specifically adjusts the `.github/workflows/api-proposal-version-check.yml` GitHub Actions workflow configuration to ensure that API proposals are correctly validated against versioning rules. This action helps maintain the integrity and consistency of API changes within the project by re-enabling a critical automated validation step.

This commit introduces a **new capability** to the project's continuous integration pipeline by adding an **API proposal version check**. A dedicated **GitHub Actions workflow**, defined in `.github/workflows/api-proposal-version-check.yml`, is now responsible for **enforcing proper versioning standards** for all API proposals. This enhancement ensures greater consistency and helps maintain the integrity and governance of the overall **API development process**.

This fixes a bug in the VS Code Tree View API, preventing extensions from crashing or encountering errors when providing tree view elements with duplicate IDs. It improves the robustness and stability of extensions utilizing Tree Views.

This commit performs a **maintenance update** to the syntax grammars for **Ruby, Swift, Dart, Go, and PHP**. It updates the `tmLanguage.json` files for these languages, introducing changes like modified heredoc patterns in Ruby, new class/function rules in Dart, and updated regex for raw strings in Swift. Additionally, the `cgmanifest.json` files for these languages, plus CSS, are updated to reflect the latest grammar versions and commit hashes. This ensures improved and more accurate **syntax highlighting** across these language extensions, enhancing the developer experience.

This commit **enhances the Copilot extension's VSCode command tool** by modifying its output to include the result of the executed command. Specifically, the `call` method within `extensions/copilot/src/extension/tools/node/vscodeCmdTool.tsx` will now serialize and return the command's actual return value, rather than just indicating execution status. This **new capability** provides richer feedback from command executions, enabling downstream features that utilize this tool to make more informed decisions or display more comprehensive information based on the command's outcome.

This commit delivers a **bug fix** to resolve an issue with **in-context evaluation** that was specifically occurring on **Windows** operating systems. The problem was identified within the **merge editor**, where it impacted the functionality of the "Complete Merge" button. By correcting this platform-specific evaluation error, the **merge editor**'s reliability is enhanced, allowing users on **Windows** to successfully finalize merge operations.

This commit introduces a **new feature** to the **Copilot extension**, enabling a skill to retrieve results from the VS Code search view. It adds **documentation** for the `get-search-view-results` skill, explaining its usage and how to interact with the VS Code command. A new localized string is included for the skill's configuration, and a dedicated setting, `GetSearchResultsViewSkill`, is defined within the `configurationService.ts` to allow users to enable or disable this capability. This enhances Copilot's ability to interact with the IDE's search functionality, providing a configurable way to access search results.

This commit **fixes naming inconsistencies** within the documentation for the **`project-setup-info-local` skill** in the **Copilot extension**. It specifically updates the `SKILL.md` file to correct references to internal tools. The outdated tool names `copilot_getVSCodeAPI`, `copilot_fetchWebPage`, and `copilot_runVscodeCommand` have been replaced with their accurate identifiers: `get_vscode_api`, `fetch_webpage`, and `run_vscode_command`. This **documentation update** ensures that users and developers referencing the skill's setup information are provided with the correct tool names, improving clarity and preventing potential confusion.

This commit introduces a **new project setup skill** to the **Copilot extension**, significantly enhancing its ability to assist users with initializing various development environments. This **feature** provides detailed guidance for setting up projects locally, covering types such as **VS Code extensions, Next.js, and Python**, and also includes instructions for projects leveraging `context7` tools. A new configuration setting, `ProjectSetupInfoSkillEnabled`, has been added to the `configurationService.ts` to allow users to enable or disable this capability, providing greater control over Copilot's assistance features. This work expands the **Copilot's knowledge base** and improves the user experience for project onboarding.

This commit introduces a **new capability** to the **Copilot extension**, enabling it to install VS Code extensions directly. It adds a new `install-vscode-extension` skill, complete with **documentation** in `SKILL.md`, detailing its purpose and usage. A new configuration setting, `InstallExtensionSkillEnabled`, is defined in `configurationService.ts` and localized in `package.nls.json` to control the activation of this feature. Additionally, the `vscodeCmdTool.tsx` is enhanced to allow skipping command existence and precondition checks via a new `skipCheck` parameter, facilitating the skill's operation.