--- title: Bring Your Own Key in VS Code | daily.dev description: VS Code introduces a new Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) API that allows developers to integrate custom language models into GitHub Copilot through extensions.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bring-your-own-key-in-vs-code-u7tzcrb6v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bring Your Own Key in VS Code | daily.dev og:description: VS Code introduces a new Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) API that allows developers to integrate custom language models into GitHub Copilot through extensions.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bring-your-own-key-in-vs-code-u7tzcrb6v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U7TzCrB6V.png og:image:alt: Bring Your Own Key in VS Code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bring Your Own Key in VS Code **[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 20 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary VS Code introduces a new Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) API that allows developers to integrate custom language models into GitHub Copilot through extensions. Instead of the VS Code team maintaining all model providers, the community can now build extensions that contribute models directly to the chat interface. The feature supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints as a fallback option and enables direct client-to-provider communication. Extensions can handle provider-specific nuances, authentication, and model discovery while appearing as native options in the model picker. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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