Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

A spear-phishing campaign by North Korean actors is abusing a legitimate feature of Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code to gain full remote control of targeted systems. In the campaign, discovered by ...