Bug: Extension Will Not Activate or Prompt for API Key

[chkp-sebastiank]

Bug: Extension Will Not Activate or Prompt for API Key

• Extension: ms-vscode.vscode-websearchforcopilot v0.1.2
• VS Code: [1.99.3]
• OS: [Windows 10]

Steps

1. Installed extension, tried @webSearch in Copilot Chat.
2. Prompted for Tavily API key. Pressed Esc to cancel.
3. Later, after obtaining an API key, cannot get prompt to appear again and @webSearch does not work.
4. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing settings, deleting globalStorage, and editing package.json to force activation.
5. Extension never activates; no logs, no output, no authentication prompt.

Diagnostics

• activationEvents in published package.json is an empty array ([]), so the extension never activates.
• Even forcing activation with ["*"], the prompt does not reappear after initial cancellation.

Expected

• Extension should always activate when used in Copilot Chat and should allow user to enter or change API key after cancelling first prompt.

Actual

• Extension is inert and cannot be used after initial cancel.

Request

• Please republish the extension with correct activation events and fix the authentication retry logic.

[brutuscat]

I switched to bing and I am still getting the Error: Invalid API key

Version: 1.100.2
Commit: 848b80aeb52026648a8ff9f7c45a9b0a80641e2e
Date: 2025-05-14T21:47:40.416Z
Electron: 34.5.1
ElectronBuildId: 11369351
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0