July 17, 2025 by Burke Holland, @burkeholland

Today, we’re excited to give you a first look at the Copilot Coding Agent in Visual Studio Code.

Instead of only having one synchronous agent in VS Code, you can now have multiple agents running at once working on your behalf. This is actually being a 10x developer. It's officially a thing. You get to hand off any work you need done to a squad of AI teammates.

To see this in action

Release date: July 9, 2025

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Welcome to the June 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

• Chat

  • Explore and contribute to the open sourced GitHub Copilot Chat extension ( Read our blog post ).
  • Generate custom instructions that reflect your project's conventions

June 30th, 2025 by the VS Code Team

Last month we shared our plan to make VS Code an open source AI editor . Today we reached the first milestone: the GitHub Copilot Chat extension is now open source on GitHub under the MIT license.

Why open source?

As we outlined previously , our primary motivation is community-driven innovation and increasing data transparency. We believe AI experiences can thrive by leveraging the vibrant open-source community - just as VS Code has successfully done over the past

Release date: June 12, 2025

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Welcome to the May 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:

• MCP

  • Expand your agent coding flow with support for prompts, resources, and sampling ( Show more ).
  • Access MCP servers that require authentication ( Show

June 12, 2025 by Harald Kirschner , Connor Peet , and Tyler Leonhardt

VS Code now supports the complete Model Context Protocol specification .

MCP co-creator David Soria Parra reflects on this milestone:

I am excited to see what developers will build with MCP and VS Code now that they can use the full spectrum of MCP features with VS Code. The community has always surprised me with their creativity and exploration in what is possible.

Beyond the initial tools and workspace awareness we introduced in May , you can

May 27th, 2025 by Brigit Murtaugh , Christof Marti , Josh Spicer , Olivia Guzzardo McVicker

One of the features that makes VS Code so flexible and powerful is Remote Development . Whether you're connecting to a secure VM from your local desktop, a hugely powerful computer from your tablet, or a containerized environment with all the dependencies your project needs – VS Code's ability to develop anything from anywhere can help in just about any setup.

Now combine those capabilities with the flexibility and power of

May 19th, 2025 by the VS Code team

We believe that the future of code editors should be open and powered by AI. For the last decade, VS Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects on GitHub . We are grateful for our vibrant community of contributors and users who choose VS Code because it is open source. As AI becomes core to the developer experience in VS Code, we intend to stay true to our founding development principles: open, collaborative, and community-

May 14th, 2025 by Harald Kirschner

When we first introduced agent mode in VS Code, it opened new ways of interacting with your code and workspace through chat. You could ask the agent to inspect files, run builds, and even debug tests . But you were limited by what the model was trained on and the contents of your workspace. So, the next step was clear: we needed a way for agents to reach beyond those boundaries and interact with real, external services in a secure