Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.124 on June 10, 2026, with a change that will affect every developer who updates the editor without reading the release notes: Copilot Autopilot — the permission level that ...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders includes a Skills panel for discovering, managing and creating Agent Skills. Agent Mode can help fill in a generated SKILL.md template, propose implementation steps and ...

Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds AI chat cost tracking, multiple Copilot chats in one session, and a safer Restricted Mode for ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.… VS ...

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 ...

Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, continuing Microsoft's recent focus on helping developers monitor and manage usage-based GitHub Copilot billing.

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...