Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined.

2026-09-16T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.138 (Insiders) Read the full article

2026-09-09T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.137 Read the full article

2026-09-02T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.136 Read the full article

2026-08-26T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.135 Read the full article

2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z · Rob Lourens, Connor Peet, Brigit Murtaugh

Explore how the VS Code Agent Host and AHP support multiple agent harnesses with durable, synchronized local and remote sessions. Read the full article

2026-08-19T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.134 Read the full article

2026-08-12T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.133 Read the full article

2026-08-05T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.132 Read the full article

2026-07-29T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.131 Read the full article

2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z · Faith Xu

MAI-Code-1-Flash is a lightweight coding model purpose built for the fast, iterative work developers do every day in GitHub. In this post, we share what the data is telling us about how it performs in real developer workflows. Read the full article

2026-07-22T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.130 Read the full article

2026-07-15T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.129. Read the full article

2026-07-08T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.128 Read the full article

2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

See how VS Code and OpenAI tested GPT-5.5 system prompt changes in a two-week experiment, cutting tool calls and tail-end token usage while speeding up edits. Read the full article

2026-07-01T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.127 Read the full article

2026-06-26T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

How the VS Code and TypeScript teams collaborated to adopt TypeScript 7 and speed up VS Code development Read the full article

2026-06-24T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.126 Read the full article

2026-06-19T00:00:00.000Z · Julia Kasper

How AI coding models calibrate effort, token cost, and tool use on even the simplest task, and what that means for model selection and cost. Read the full article

2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z · Kayla Cinnamon

Learn how to use bring your own key (BYOK) in VS Code to add models from providers like Azure, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Huggingface, OpenRouter, or use a local model with Ollama, Foundry Local, and more. Read the full article

2026-06-17T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.125 Read the full article

2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z · Ryan Caldwell, Bhavya U

Learn how we're improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot to reduce costs and latency for VS Code users. Read the full article

2026-06-10T17:00:00.000Z · Visual Studio Code Team

Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.124 Read the full article

2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

Learn why the coding harness around GitHub Copilot in VS Code matters as models, tools, agents, and providers evolve. Read the full article

2026-03-13T00:00:00.000Z · Pierce Boggan

Learn how VS Code uses AI across its own development workflow with GitHub Copilot agent mode, automated testing, and AI-powered code review. Read the full article

2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

Explore agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity in VS Code 1.110: lifecycle hooks, agent skills, session memory, and integrated browser tools. Read the full article

2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z · Vikram Duvvur, Gaurav Mittal, Benjamin Simmonds

Learn how we extended next edit suggestions to work across your entire file, reducing friction and improving productivity in GitHub Copilot. Read the full article

2026-02-05T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

VS Code has become the unified interface for all your coding agents. Manage local, background, and cloud agents in one place, use Claude and Codex agents alongside Copilot, and benefit from open standards like MCP and Agent Skills. Read the full article

2026-01-26T00:00:00.000Z · Harald Kirschner, Connor Peet

VS Code now supports MCP Apps, enabling AI agents to display interactive UIs for richer developer workflows. Read the full article

2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z · João Moreno

How we built docfind, a high-performance client-side search engine using Rust and WebAssembly, and how GitHub Copilot accelerated development. Read the full article

2025-12-03T00:00:00.000Z · James Montemagno

The VS Code Insiders Podcast is your insider's guide to the features, decisions, and people shaping the future of Visual Studio Code. Read the full article

2025-11-18T00:00:00.000Z · Sean Iyer

Private Marketplace for VS Code extensions now generally available. Read the full article

2025-11-06T00:00:00.000Z · The VS Code team

Ghost text suggestions are now open source as part of the Copilot Chat extension - the second milestone in making VS Code an open source AI editor. Read the full article

2025-11-05T00:00:00.000Z · VS Code Team

Agents took over VS Code in 2025. We released agent mode for VS Code, integration for the Copilot coding agent, and the new GitHub Copilot CLI. But Copilot is not the only agent game in town. There are now more coding agents than ever, including options from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read the full article

2025-10-22T00:00:00.000Z · Olivia Guzzardo McVicker, Pierce Boggan

Learn how the new Language Model Chat Provider API in VS Code is enabling more model choice and extensibility for chat experiences via the Bring Your Own Key experience. Read the full article

2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z · Isidor Nikolic

Use auto model selection in VS Code to get faster responses, reduced rate limiting, and a 10% discount on premium requests for paid users. Read the full article

2025-07-17T00:00:00.000Z · Burke Holland

VS Code's integration with GitHub Copilot Coding Agent allows you to delegate tasks to the agent and let it handle them in the background. Read the full article

2025-06-30T00:00:00.000Z · The VS Code team

We are open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. It’s the first milestone in making VS Code an open source AI editor. Read the full article

2025-06-12T00:00:00.000Z · Harald Kirschner

VS Code now supports the complete Model Context Protocol specification, including authorization, prompts, resources, and sampling. Read the full article

2025-05-27T00:00:00.000Z · Brigit Murtaugh, Christof Marti, Josh Spicer, Olivia Guzzardo McVicker

Enhance your developer productivity with AI and Remote Development. Read the full article

2025-05-19T00:00:00.000Z · The VS Code team

We will open source the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. It’s the next step towards making VS Code an open source AI editor. Read the full article