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

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

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, ...

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 ...

It's more than just a code editor.

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Overview On February 11, 2026, NSFOCUS CERT monitored Microsoft’s release of its February security update patches, addressing 59 security issues across widely used products such as Windows, Azure, ...

OpenAI has launched the Codex app for Windows, bringing its AI-powered coding assistant to developers with native sandboxing, multi-agent workflows.

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

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, ...