Differentiate types of chat interactions in the local telemetry data

[russellneville]

Validations

• I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

In the local telemetry feed, configured in the config.yaml data array, the current events supported are:
-autocomplete
-chatInteraction

Currently there are 3 types of chat interaction, chat, agent and edit. Please adjust the events such that the type of interaction is distinguishable.

@chezsmithy

Solution

Perhaps by differentiating the "eventName" value.

Current output looks like:
{"name": "chatInteraction", "data": {"timestamp": "2025-04-29T20:52:03.748Z", "userId": "", "userAgent": "Visual Studio Code/1.99.3 (Continue/1.1.29)", "selectedProfileId": "local", "eventName": "chatInteraction", "schema": "0.2.0", ...

[tomasz-stefaniak]

If someone opens that PR we would get it reviewed and merged. I'm marking this as good-first-issue and tagging in @RomneyDa who knows our telemetry well.

[uinstinct]

Currently there are 3 types of chat interaction, chat, agent and edit. Please adjust the events such that the type of interaction is distinguishable.

we already had chat interaction as chatInteraction.

we also had for edit as editInteraction

editInteraction example

{ name: 'editInteraction', data: { timestamp: '2025-05-23T06:14:22.868Z', userId: '', userAgent: 'Visual Studio Code/1.100.2 (Continue/1.1.38)', selectedProfileId: 'file:///Users/instinct/Desktop/continue/manual-testing-sandbox/.continue/assistants/sample-config.yaml', eventName: 'editInteraction', schema: '0.2.0', prompt: 'correct this function', completion: 'class Calculator {\n' + ' constructor() {\n' + ' this.result = 0;\n' + ' }\n' + '\n' + ' add(number) {\n' + ' this.result += number;\n' + ' return this;\n' + ' }\n' + ' subtract(number) {\n' + ' this.result -= number;\n' + ' return this;\n' + ' }\n' + '\n' + ' multiply(number) {\n' + ' this.result *= number;\n' + ' return this;\n' + ' }\n' + '\n' + ' divide(number) {\n' + ' if (number === 0) {\n' + ' throw new Error("Cannot divide by zero");\n' + ' }\n' + ' this.result /= number;\n' + ' return this;\n' + ' }\n' + '\n' + ' getResult() {\n' + ' return this.result;\n' + ' }\n' + '\n' + ' reset() {\n' + ' this.result = 0;\n' + ' return this;\n' + ' }\n' + '}\n', modelTitle: 'My GPT-4o', modelProvider: 'openai' }, schema: '0.2.0', level: 'all', profileId: 'file:///Users/instinct/Desktop/continue/manual-testing-sandbox/.continue/assistants/sample-config.yaml' }

#5812 adds agentInteraction for agent