Add a send message tool for automation & mcp (#273306)

* Add a send message tool for automation & mcp

This also sents up the posibility of smoke tests.

* Add demonstrate.md and remove prompt

* add simple notification util

* notif

test/mcp/src/automationTools/chat.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+import { McpServer, RegisteredTool } from '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js';
+import { ApplicationService } from '../application';
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+/**
+ * Chat Tools
+ */
+export function applyChatTools(server: McpServer, appService: ApplicationService): RegisteredTool[] {
+	const tools: RegisteredTool[] = [];
+
+	tools.push(server.tool(
+		'vscode_automation_chat_send_message',
+		'Send a message to the VS Code chat panel',
+		{
+			message: z.string().describe('The message to send to the chat')
+		},
+		async (args) => {
+			const { message } = args;
+			const app = await appService.getOrCreateApplication();
+			try {
+				await app.workbench.chat.sendMessage(message);
+				return {
+					content: [{
+						type: 'text' as const,
+						text: `Sent chat message: "${message}"`
+					}]
+				};
+			} catch (error) {
+				return {
+					content: [{
+						type: 'text' as const,
+						text: `Failed to send chat message: ${error}`
+					}]
+				};
+			}
+		}
+	));
+
+	return tools;
+}

test/mcp/src/automationTools/index.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { applyNotebookTools } from './notebook.js';
 import { applyLocalizationTools } from './localization.js';
 import { applyTaskTools } from './task.js';
 import { applyProfilerTools } from './profiler.js';
+import { applyChatTools } from './chat.js';
 import { ApplicationService } from '../application';
 
 /**
@@ -89,6 +90,9 @@ export function applyAllTools(server: McpServer, appService: ApplicationService)
 	// Profiler Tools
 	tools = tools.concat(applyProfilerTools(server, appService));
 
+	// Chat Tools
+	tools = tools.concat(applyChatTools(server, appService));
+
 	// Return all registered tools
 	return tools;
 }
@@ -112,5 +116,6 @@ export {
 	applyNotebookTools,
 	applyLocalizationTools,
 	applyTaskTools,
-	applyProfilerTools
+	applyProfilerTools,
+	applyChatTools
 };