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On Wednesdays, we ship! 🚀
This week’s VS Code highlights include the new Customization window: a central place to manage all chat customizations.
Heard that Snowflake laid off its entire tech writing team. I can only say this:
passo.uno/reconsider/
Don't buy into the myth that "accessibility is only about adding alternative text to images." Alt text is important, of course. But there is so much more to accessibility, including headline structure, functional controls, color contrast, link text, plain language, and more.
Before you go to bed, reflect if 10y old you would be proud of yourself.
If doing good is too hard, just don't hurt others, will you?
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The VS Code team builds with VS Code - this is a fundamental principle of how the team works, and it extends to AI capabilities too.
Learn more about how the team builds with AI, including how these processes have helped the team move from monthly to weekly releases: aka.ms/VSCode/Build...
Have you tried forking chat sessions in VS Code? Create a new independent session that keeps the conversation history so you can explore alternative approaches without losing your original context. Watch the video to see how it works.
aka.ms/ForkingChat
Agents, for real work.
The latest VS Code release gives you better agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity.
Here's what's new:
🪝 Hooks support
🎯 Message steering and queueing
🌐 Agentic integrated browser
🧠 Shared memory
And more...
🔎 Full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/110
Today's all about @vscode.dev release notes for 1.110: team read-out and polishing! #techwriting
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Next edit suggestions just leveled-up in VS Code: with long-distance NES, you get edit suggestions anywhere in your file, not just near your cursor's position.
Learn how the team built this - creating the training dataset, refining the UX, evaluating success, and more: aka.ms/VSCode/long-...
Updating our docs for the upcoming @vscode.dev 1.110 release. Always amazed by how much the team puts out!
🧪 Follow along our test plan items: github.com/issues?q=org...
🎶 My favorite song for this release: "Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack)"
No such thing as leftover tomato puree! Double concentrated🍅🍅! #nomnom
Meesjes zijn de kleuters onder de vogels!
🚀 VS Code is becoming your home for multi-agent development. A single place to view and manage all your agents - local, background and cloud, and even Claude or Codex, all under your Copilot subscription. Learn more ➡️ aka.ms/VSCode/109blog
You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it!
Here’s what’s new:
🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents
🔀 Parallel subagents
💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents
🌐 Integrated browser
& more...
Screenshot of GitHub issues query that lists the VS Code test plan items for the January 2026 release.
Working my way through all the feature updates for the @code 1.109 release and getting our docs updated.
Verdorie, dino-koeken zijn verslavend! #random
Yeah, not great.
You may have noticed that search on the VS Code website has gotten a lot quicker lately.
In our latest blogpost, João Moreno breaks down the engineering process behind docfind, a search engine we built that runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly: code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...
New year, new VS Code release!
The team focused on housekeeping this past month (closing almost 6k issues!) and feature updates like bringing Agent Skills support to stable and improving the terminal IntelliSense UX.
Learn more: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_108
A slide titled “Visual Studio Code – Stay in control” with a section labeled Security & Trust and five bullet points: Stay in control of agent security with tool pre- and post-approvals; Future-proof your MCP servers with a more secure and scalable MCP authentication standard; Control access to MCP servers in your organization with custom MCP registries; Centrally manage settings and configurations across Windows, macOS, and Linux; Increased transparency with open source inline suggestions
Staying in control as AI becomes part of your coding workflow is essential.
🧵 We just released features that enhance security and transparency in @code:
![A slide titled “Visual Studio Code – October Update [1.106]” with three columns of feature highlights.
Agent HQ: Agent Sessions view as mission control for agent tasks, OpenAI Codex integration, built-in planning agent, custom agents and handoffs, inlined terminal panels in chat.
Security & Trust: Open sourcing inline suggestions, tool pre- and post-approval, expanded MCP auth support, control MCP server access with custom MCP registries, Linux device policy support.
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A slide titled “Visual Studio Code – October Update [1.106]” with three columns of feature highlights. Agent HQ: Agent Sessions view as mission control for agent tasks, OpenAI Codex integration, built-in planning agent, custom agents and handoffs, inlined terminal panels in chat. Security & Trust: Open sourcing inline suggestions, tool pre- and post-approval, expanded MCP auth support, control MCP server access with custom MCP registries, Linux device policy support. Great coding experience: Copy text from deleted lines in diff editor, VS Code product icon refresh, Terminal IntelliSense GA, compare source control branches and tags.
Announcing Agent HQ in VS Code: a unified agent experience directly in the editor.
Here's what that looks like...🧵
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🚀 The VS Code September release (v1.105) is here! Check out what's new:
🛠️ GitHub MCP registry integration
🔀 Resolve merge conflicts with AI
🔔 OS notifications for tasks & chat responses
🧠 Chain of thought with GPT-5-Codex
…and more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease
🧵 Here are the highlights...
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Ever wondered what the latest AI features in VS Code can do for you? 🤔
Join James Montemagno as he walks through highlights like Claude Sonnet 4.5 & GPT-5, Plan Mode & Chain of Thought, Copilot Coding Agent, and AI Merge Conflict Resolution.
📺 Watch the full video: youtu.be/EGZKvuB5jWw
Tired of being AI's personal tutor?
📖 New @vscode.dev guide: teach your AI once, benefit forever. Context engineering = no more "remember my project uses React not Vue" every single chat.
Set it, forget it, ship it 🚀
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
#AI #ContextEngineering
The new VS Code release dropped yesterday - check out our latest video from James Montemagno telling you exactly what you need to know! youtu.be/9qAkd2mGYCo
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🚀 v1.104 of VS Code is here! Check out what's new:
🤖 Improved coding agent integration
📄 AGENTS.md file support for better context
🔍 New Auto mode (Preview) for smart model selection
🔑 Model flexibility via BYOK extension API
…and more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease
Here are the highlights 🧵
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We're so excited to bring you VS Code Dev Days - a global community initiative to explore the AI capabilities within VS Code!
With more than 60 worldwide, in-person events and 4 special virtual editions, there's an event for you. Learn more: aka.ms/VSCode/DevDa...
