Plugin-provided extension canvases are unavailable in general chat sessions
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Description
### Feature summary
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### What problem are you trying to solve?
### Summary
A canvas extension bundled with an installed Copilot plugin cannot be opened from a general chat session. The extension is only discovered when the chat runs inside a project containing the extension under `.github/extensions`.
The plugin and its skills load successfully, but its bundled canvas does not.
### Reproduction
1. Install and enable a plugin containing a canvas extension such as `.github/extensions/report-viewer/extension.mjs`.
2. Declare the extension directory in the plugin manifest.
3. Start a general Copilot chat not attached to a project session.
4. Invoke a plugin skill that calls `open_canvas`.
5. The call fails:
```text
Canvas "project:report-viewer/report-viewer" is not registered.
No canvas "report-viewer" is registered.
### Proposed solution
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### Workflow impact
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing how the plugin manifest exposes .github/extensions/report-viewer/extension.mjs and how a general chat handles the open_canvas call. Compare that path with project sessions where the canvas is discovered. Done means a canvas bundled in an enabled plugin is registered and can open from general chat, while existing project-session behavior remains intact.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- desktop, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100