Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

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 ...

Native browser integration in chat is designed to make web debugging tasks (DOM interaction, screenshots, console logs) available directly to AI agents. Agent workflows are expanding with ...

Anthropic's Claude Code for VS Code has surpassed OpenAI's Codex extension in Visual Studio Code Marketplace installs and review volume despite launching later. OpenAI positions Codex as an IDE ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers, offering agentic workflows, multiple AI model support, and specialized agents for terminal-based development.