I would suggest trying the Continue.dev VSCode plugin for selective context injection. The plugin is Apache 2.0 licensed, and you can hook it up to any LLM API including local.

It has most of the same features as GitHub Copilot, but a few extra features I find essential. It can scrape documentation sites for individual libraries, which means you can do stuff like `@pandas @terminal @codebase Help me fix this error`.

For greenfield projects I will usually start out in a web-based chat interface, but the second I need to go back and forth between IDE and the web I switch over to the Continue.dev plugin.

I’m pretty happy with Zed for development. I do plan on developing custom tooling around my style of workflow, but it’s not going to be part of an IDE.