Feature Request: Extend the # context operator to support GitLab Issues and Merge Requests

[garrardkitchen]

Currently, the # operator is a fantastic productivity feature — but its scope is limited to GitHub Issues and Pull Requests. For engineers who work primarily on other Git SCM platforms, this limits its usefulness significantly.

My team works predominantly in GitLab, and we'd love to see # extended to support GitLab Issues and Merge Requests. Being able to reference a GitLab issue or MR directly in a Copilot CLI prompt — and have it pull in the relevant context — would meaningfully reduce context-switching and accelerate our day-to-day workflows.

Proposed scope:

• GitLab Issues
• GitLab Merge Requests

Stretch goal: Broader support for other mainstream SCM platforms (e.g. Azure DevOps Repos, Bitbucket) would make this feature genuinely platform-agnostic and broaden Copilot CLI's appeal across enterprise teams who aren't GitHub-native.

Happy to provide further detail or participate in any early testing if that would help move this forward.