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 addition of the new CLI-based experience will allow developers to use familiar tools, such as VSCode, Codex, and Claude ...

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session ...