Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

The new weekly update focuses on agent workflows, observability, trust controls, Markdown usability and engineering changes.

AI agents gain browsers: Version 1.119 lets users share browser tabs with AI agents, enabling live page interaction for coding and design workflows. Tracing and optimization: OpenTelemetry tracing now ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

Visual Studio Code has introduced a robust suite of AI-driven features designed to enhance development workflows and improve productivity. Central to these advancements is Agent Mode, a tool that ...

Visual Studio Code 1.119 adds browser-aware AI agents, token optimization, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Markdown usability ...

Pixel Agents integrates animated pixel art characters into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to create a virtual workspace for managing AI-driven workflows. Demonstrated by Nate Herk , this extension ...

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Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat.