Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

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Visual Studio Code 1.109 has been released, primarily bringing new features for handling AI agents. Developers can now follow the response generation of Anthropic Claude models in real-time in the ...

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

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Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

Four serious new vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Cursor and Windsurf extensions, three of which remain ...

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