The agent is doing the actual work, and VS Code is just a window.

VS Code agents are now in Stable preview, and the 1.122 update removed the GitHub OAuth requirement from BYOK, letting defense, healthcare, and finance developers run fully air-gapped AI-assisted ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, adding agent-focused features, larger model context support, integrated browser updates and a new delay for some automatic extension updates.

Microsoft has released VS Code 1.123 with a new Research Agent, AI session syncing, Chronicle search, browser upgrades, and ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released VS Code 1.122 with BYOK support without sign-in, mobile device emulation, and a new issue reporting ...

Developers can now continue VS Code chats started on other devices, and OpenAI and Anthropic models get an enlarged context window.

Microsoft's latest VS Code update enables Copilot and custom agents to collaborate via the new Agent HQ. It also integrates Agent Sessions into the Chat view. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code ...

GitHub Copilot multi-agent support for VS Code launched at Microsoft Build 2026 alongside Project Polaris, an in-house AI ...

Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization. Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version ...

Agents, browser debugging, and deprecation of Edit Mode are all highlighted in the latest versions of the popular code editor. With Microsoft now releasing stable updates to its Visual Studio Code ...