Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Dohmke pointed to Microsoft's "Use agent mode in VS Code" documentation, which explains the feature. By default, agent mode prompts the user to approve each tool invocation. Developers can enable the ...