VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...
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 ...
The July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code, taking it to version 1.103, adds support for chat checkpoints, allowing developers to restore their workspace and conversation to earlier states during AI ...
Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.110, an ...
Are you recreating your AI agent every time you switch apps? A new common sense of 'just plug it in' that works with Claude ...
Visual Studio Code 1.136 is now available, with Microsoft putting much of the focus on AI agent workflows, pull requests, workspace support, and session management. Microsoft detailed the changes in ...
Code Studio is an AI-powered IDE that offers capabilities like autocompletion, code generation and explanations, refactoring of selected code blocks, and multistep agent automation for large-scale ...
At this year's Build conference, Microsoft unveiled a major expansion of its agent-based AI platform, highlighting new tools to securely build, customize and orchestrate intelligent agents across ...
Visual Studio September 2026 revamps BYOM with a new Agent, adds a NuGet Fixer, Podman debugging, and broader AI model ...
This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.