[Request] Inline completions should be able to be configured to not trigger in certain files

[mdmulligan]

Type: Bug

1. Set chat.disableAIFeatures to true.
2. Edit the below included file, specifically the line that reads:

"lint:fix": "pnpm run eslint:fix && pnpm run prettier:fix && pnpm run cspell",

Attempt to add a : after the cspell prior to the ",.
3. Observe what happens.

Actual Results

• Inline suggestions are triggered.

Expected Results

• AI features are disabled as the setting says they should be.

Additional Details

Output of the Developer: Extract Inline Suggest State command:

{
    "name": "webcraft",
    "description": "A simple Minecraft clone built on web technologies.",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "license": "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md",
    "private": true,
    "author": {
        "name": "G'lek Tarssza",
        "email": "glek@glektarssza.com",
        "url": "https://glektarssza.com"
    },
    "homepage": "https://glektarssza.github.io/webcraft/",
    "bugs": {
        "url": "https://github.com/glektarssza/webcraft/issues"
    },
    "repository": {
        "type": "git",
        "url": "https://github.com/glektarssza/webcraft.git",
        "directory": "./app/"
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.22.0+sha512.bf049efe995b28f527fd2b41ae0474ce29186f7edcb3bf545087bd61fbbebb2bf75362d1307fda09c2d288e1e499787ac12d4fcb617a974718a6051f2eee741c",
    "type": "module",
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "vite serve --mode development",
        "test": "vitest --run --coverage",
        "test:ci": "vitest --run --coverage",
        "test:ui": "vitest --ui",
        "lint": "pnpm run eslint && pnpm run prettier",
        "lint:fix": "pnpm run eslint:fix && pnpm run prettier:fix && pnpm run cspell:",
        "lint:ci": "pnpm run eslint:ci && pnpm run prettier:ci && pnpm run cspell:ci",
        "cspell": "cspell lint --cache .",
        "cspell:ci": "cspell lint --no-cache .",
        "eslint": "eslint --cache ./src/ ./tests/",
        "eslint:fix": "eslint --cache --fix ./src/ ./tests/",
        "eslint:ci": "eslint ./src/ ./tests/",
        "prettier": "prettier --config ../.prettierrc.cjs --ignore-path ../.prettierignore --cache --check .",
        "prettier:fix": "prettier --config ../.prettierrc.cjs --ignore-path ../.prettierignore --cache --write .",
        "prettier:ci": "prettier --config ../.prettierrc.cjs --ignore-path ../.prettierignore --check .",
        "build": "pnpm run build:prod",
        "build:all": "pnpm run build:production && pnpm run build:development",
        "build:prod": "pnpm run build:production",
        "build:production": "vite build --mode production",
        "build:dev": "pnpm run build:development",
        "build:development": "vite build --mode development",
        "clean": "pnpm run clean:prod",
        "clean:all": "pnpm run clean:production && pnpm run clean:development",
        "clean:prod": "pnpm run clean:production",
        "clean:production": "del-cli \"./dist/\"",
        "clean:dev": "pnpm run clean:dev",
        "clean:development": "del-cli \"./dist/\"",
        "rebuild": "pnpm run rebuild:prod",
        "rebuild:all": "pnpm run clean:all && pnpm run build:all",
        "rebuild:prod": "pnpm run clean:prod && pnpm run build:prod",
        "rebuild:dev": "pnpm run clean:dev && pnpm run build:dev"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@eslint/js": "^9.38.0",
        "@faker-js/faker": "^10.1.0",
        "@rollup/plugin-replace": "^6.0.2",
        "@types/node": "^24.9.1",
        "@vitest/browser": "^4.0.4",
        "@vitest/browser-playwright": "^4.0.4",
        "@vitest/coverage-istanbul": "^4.0.4",
        "@vitest/ui": "^4.0.4",
        "del-cli": "^7.0.0",
        "eslint": "^9.38.0",
        "eslint-config-prettier": "^10.1.8",
        "eslint-plugin-tsdoc": "^0.4.0",
        "playwright": "^1.56.1",
        "prettier": "^3.6.2",
        "sass": "^1.93.2",
        "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
        "typescript-eslint": "8.46.2",
        "vite": "^7.1.12",
        "vitest": "^4.0.4"
    }
}


// <json>
// {
//     "inlineCompletion": {
//         "insertText": "words",
//         "range": {
//             "startLineNumber": 29,
//             "startColumn": 86,
//             "endLineNumber": 29,
//             "endColumn": 86
//         },
//         "idx": 0,
//         "completeBracketPairs": false,
//         "isInlineEdit": false,
//         "showInlineEditMenu": false,
//         "suggestionId": "sgt-2edefabc-6e59-42dc-98aa-25241156d07b"
//     }
// }
// </json>

Extension version: 4.3.0
VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.107.0-insider (769ef65cd62212cde4db47c538acfea3063f1277, 2025-11-13T14:43:43.333Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.17.7-arch1-2
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics (12 x 3808)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off trees_in_viz: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	1, 1, 1
Memory (System)	27.26GB (17.98GB free)
Process Argv	/home/glek/Development/Repositories/GitHub/glektarssza/webcraft-v2 --crash-reporter-id 4d1296bd-f739-474e-a1de-184344146899
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	xfce
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	XFCE
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	xfce
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	x11

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[glektarssza]

Commenting from my main account (accidentally submitted this issue from my secondary account); this may very well be a VSCode issue. If so let me know and I'll refile an issue with them.

[Jason3S]

@glektarssza,

Cool project.

The spell checker extension will offer inline completion after it see cspell:. cspell: is the beginning of the inline directives for cspell, like cspell:disable-next-line to tell it to not check the next line. The extension offers to complete the directive.

I'm not sure what you are seeing. This is what happens to me:

I could add an option to turn this off. I'm just not sure how many people will find the option.

[glektarssza]

Cool project.

Thank you!

The spell checker extension will offer inline completion after it see cspell:.

Okay, that does make sense. It's weird. The reason I thought it was to do with VSCode's AI features is because whether it was showing up or not was reacting to having the inlineChat.enableV2 setting which appears to be an AI-related flag.

I'm not sure what you are seeing. This is what happens to me:

This is what I am seeing (though in a very different font, that's likely a misconfigured editor setting somewhere).

I could add an option to turn this off. I'm just not sure how many people will find the option.

I wonder if there's a way to improve the way the inline directive detection tells when it should apply or not? I'm not sure the conditions under which it's supposed to apply (e.g. comments only) and I get that trying to account for all possible language comment styles would be massively annoying. Only applying inside comments would resolve the issue, to be sure. Maybe looking at another extension such as Better Comments for inspiration on how they handled detecting comments might be worthwhile?

Failing that, I think a good middle ground might be a setting to disable inline suggestions for files matching a globbing pattern rather than just disabling it globally? This is a feature I'd still want to leverage as I can definitely see value in it but I don't really want it triggering in files like package.json.