Assistant: update Posit Assistant guidance#385
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Requesting review from @cindyytong, added Tom and Julia as FYIs (but feedback welcome!) |
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| When using Positron's AI features (Posit Assistant, Positron Assistant, or Databot), data including your prompts, responses and data usage may be shared with third-party AI model providers, such as Anthropic and GitHub Copilot, depending on the providers you use. Each provider has its own data handling, privacy policies, and terms of service. |
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should we even mention "Positron Assistant, or Databot" if we plan to take this out in 2 weeks?
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| In Positron 2026.01.0, Positron Assistant has switched to using a native implementation of the Copilot completion engine, addressing a variety of authentication and performance issues. Copilot credentials now also work in Remote SSH sessions, and VS Code proxy settings are respected when connecting to GitHub Copilot. | ||
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Should we add a line about how it's deprecated and we recommend they migrate
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Thanks Cindy! I agree with your suggestions and have added them in 👍 |
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Closes posit-dev/positron#13934.
Some updates to the docs to provide better guidance around Posit Assistant, noting the deprecation of Positron Assistant, but still including Positron Assistant docs for the time being. This is meant to alleviate some confusion in the meantime, before Positron Assistant is deprecated.