Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code release expands AI agent capabilities with multi-model orchestration, cloud automations, desktop control and a marketplace for agent customizations.
Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...
VS Code has been my default code editor for years, but lately, tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Google Antigravity have made it feel old-fashioned. Microsoft’s new Agents view is its answer to that ...
Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent ...
VS Code 1.138 lets developers move Codex sessions between ChatGPT and VS Code while preserving the conversation and project context. Microsoft’s Agent Host separates AI sessions from individual editor ...