Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks. With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers ...

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

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 ...

The July 2026 Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management. VS Code 1.128 was released on July 8, ...