Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.

Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.

The primary purpose of report parameters is to filter data at the data source, and retrieve just what is needed for the purpose of the report. For report parameters, find a balance between enabling ...