Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

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 ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides tools to turn a slightly unreasonable idea and a blinking cursor into functional software.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, an update to its free, popular code editor that features a dedicated agent host and an editor panel in the Agents window. The updated editor also ...

Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...

The Visual Studio Code (VS Code) terminal is an incredibly powerful tool that can enhance your productivity and streamline your development workflow. As developers, we often find ourselves juggling ...

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate top-level sessions. Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most ...