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The /explain command is not limited to .py files or core business logic. For instance, in our Manhattan distance code base, we can use Copilot to interpret an entire non-project file or a specific section of it.
There are times when we may want a summary of a complete non-project file. For example, consider the requirements.txt file in our project:
pandas==2.2.3
flask==3.1.0
To get a general explanation, we can highlight the entire content with the cursor, then open the inline chat or chat window and enter /explain. Figure 7.7 shows an example of this using the chat window in VS Code:

Figure 7.7: Chat window explanation of a full file highlighted content
In this case, Copilot accurately recognized that requirements.txt lists the dependencies needed for the code base to run properly. For common non-project files, we can generally expect reliable explanations since LLMs have encountered many similar...