Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code with shared AI canvases, portable chats, improved Markdown editing, and stronger agent security.

Visual Studio 2026 can now automatically surface organization-level GitHub Copilot agents across eligible repositories, allowing companies to distribute specialized development agents more broadly.

VS Code 1.130 moves agent sessions into a dedicated Agent Host process. The Agents window adds compact diffs, file statistics and broader worktree support. Chat timestamps, credit visibility and Git ...

GemDB today launched GemDB Code, a free Visual Studio Code extension that delivers a database where the code is the schema. When a developer or AI coding agent creates or modifies an object and ...

Microsoft’s latest update to Visual Studio Code, released August 26, features a Rubber Duck agent for a second model opinion as well as UX improvements to the Agents window. VS Code also now can show ...