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 ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer ...

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 ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate ...

Amazon introduced a Nova Act extension to build and test AI agents directly inside integrated development environments including Visual Studio Code, Amazon’s Kiro, and Cursor. The company says the new ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...