My Last Chat

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My Last Chat is a VS Code extension for managing and searching your AI chat history summaries. It integrates deeply with GitHub Copilot, making it easy to save, search, and reuse your AI conversation records.

When you install the My Last Chat extension, you get:

• My Last Chat View - View and manage all chat summaries in the sidebar
• Copilot Tool Integration - Three native LM tools for GitHub Copilot
• Auto Summary Generation - Use /compact command to automatically summarize conversations

Getting Started

Create Your First Summary

1. Click the My Last Chat icon in the Activity Bar
2. Click the + button to create a new summary
3. Fill in the summary information and save

Auto-Generate Summaries with Copilot

This extension provides a compact.prompt.md file, which is a reusable prompt file. Add it to Copilot Chat's Prompt configuration, and you can use the /compact command in Copilot Chat:

@workspace /compact

This command will automatically:

• Extract technical details and code patterns from the current conversation
• Generate YAML frontmatter with proper metadata format
• Smart deduplication: update existing summaries or create new files
• Auto-save to .myLastChat/ directory

Key Features

📝 Summary Management

All chat summaries are stored as Markdown files in the .myLastChat folder, each containing:

• YAML frontmatter metadata (title, description, project info, etc.)
• Markdown-formatted chat content
• Tags and completed task lists

💡 Flexible Knowledge Management

/compact is not just for summarizing conversations, but also for flexible project knowledge management. You can:

• Use /compact after conversations to update existing knowledge or create new knowledge
• Insert relevant summaries into current conversations anytime to provide project knowledge or progress
• Build a searchable, reusable project knowledge base

🔍 Search and Filtering

• Search by title - Quickly find relevant summaries
• Metadata filtering - Filter by project, type, scope
• Favorites - Mark important summaries
• Time grouping - Group by Today, Yesterday, Last Week, Earlier

🎨 Flexible View Options

• Sidebar View - Quick browse summaries in the sidebar
• Editor Panel - Open the full summary list in the editor

🤖 Copilot Tool Integration

Provides three extension tools for GitHub Copilot:

Feedback Levels:

• TITLE_ONLY - Returns title only
• DESCRIPTION - Returns title and description
• META - Returns all metadata
• ALL - Returns full content

Example:

Find all debugging summaries using MyLastChats tools

🚀 Quick Insert to Chat

One-click to add summary files to Copilot conversations, helping the AI assistant understand previous conversation context.

Summary File Format

---
title: Chat title (required)
description: Chat description (required)
workplace: /path/to/workspace (required)
project: Project name
type: coding | debug | planning | spec
createdAt: 2026-01-25T10:00:00.000Z
updatedAt: 2026-01-25T10:00:00.000Z
favorite: false
tags: [tag1, tag2]
solved_lists:
  - Completed task 1
  - Completed task 2
---

# Chat Summary Title

Record chat content here...

Companion Prompt File

📄 compact.prompt.md - Conversation Summary Generator

This is a companion prompt file that can be used in Copilot Chat:

/compact

Features:

• ✅ Auto-extract technical details and code patterns
• ✅ Generate YAML frontmatter with proper metadata format
• ✅ Smart deduplication: update existing summaries or create new files
• ✅ Auto-save to .myLastChat/ directory

Configuration Options

Open VS Code Settings (Ctrl+,) and search for "My Last Chat":

• Storage Location - Choose workspace or global storage
• Global Storage Path - Customize global storage directory
• Auto Hide Controls - Automatically hide search bar when scrolling

Privacy and Data

All chat summaries are stored in the local file system. The extension does not send your summary content to any remote servers.

Feedback and Issues

If you encounter any problems or have feature suggestions, please submit them in GitHub Issues.

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file for details