Surface multiple solutions for katas that have them#3275
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When an exercise has multiple reference solutions (14 exercises today), show a "See alternative approaches" link in the panel after a passing check. Clicking opens Copilot Chat where the agent presents all reference solutions with their explanations. Changes: - Preserve all @[solution] blocks from katas content (catalog.ts was discarding all but the first via .find()) - Add hasAlternatives flag to ExerciseContent, driven by solutionCodes.length > 1 - Extend the solution tool to return alternatives alongside the primary - Thread hasAlternatives through webview to conditionally render the link - Update agent instructions with new chat entry point and handling
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| - **"Explain this concept in more detail"** — Provide a deeper pedagogical explanation. Offer analogies, relate to prior units. Don't repeat the panel content. | ||
| - **"Help me understand why my solution failed"** — Analyze common mistakes for that exercise. Give targeted debugging hints, not the full solution. | ||
| - **"Explain this solution step by step"** — Walk through the reference solution line by line, explaining the quantum concepts and Q# patterns. | ||
| - **"Explain this solution step by step"** — Walk through the reference solution line by line, explaining the quantum concepts and Q# patterns. If there are multiple reference solutions, walk through only the first one. |
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Shall we instruct Copilot to also call the readUserCode (?) tool to read the user's solution, and compare to the reference solution?
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This comment was meant for the line below it. Looks like this line is just out of date (and the corresponding row in the table). Could you clean it up maybe?
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Removed the entry for "Explain this solution"
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I remember finding the alternative solutions useful in the web version of the katas and I thought they might be useful in VS Code too. I decided not to try to figure out if the user's solution matched one of the available solutions since I wasn't sure Haiku could handle that reliably and it's easy enough to read past the one that matches yours.
