**Urgent** Need a way to disable automated commands

[MichealReed]

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Nearly every other message copilot will prepend a command automatically, disregarding my context, causing me to rerun without, thus draining an additional prompt.

Is there a way to disable this feature entirely?

[AmanRai8]

There isn’t currently a way to disable Copilot from auto-prepending commands in Visual Studio. The only workaround is to use inline suggestions or adjust Copilot settings

[MichealReed]

Actually, I found a workaround, you can go into the keyboard mapping JSON and unbind the send + dispatch, setting send only to the enter key.

    {
        "key": "",
        "command": "-workbench.action.chat.submit",
        "when": "inChatInput"
    },
    {
        "key": "enter",
        "command": "workbench.action.chat.submitWithoutDispatching",
        "when": "chatInputHasText && chatRequestIsPaused && inChatInput && chatMode == 'ask' || chatInputHasText && inChatInput && !chatSessionRequestInProgress && chatMode == 'ask' || chatPromptFileAttached && chatRequestIsPaused && inChatInput && chatMode == 'ask' || chatPromptFileAttached && inChatInput && !chatSessionRequestInProgress && chatMode == 'ask'"
    },
    ```