AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes ...

Trae is ByteDance's take on Visual Studio Code, but some digging raised some questions, which the company has now responded ...

Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization. Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 ...

News VS Code 1.10 Showcases New, Detailed Markdown Copilot Prompting By David Ramel 05/12/2025 The new way to get the most out of GitHub Copilot is from markdown prompting, the practice of writing ...

Floating windows are possible in Visual Studio Code: editors and selected views can be detached from the main window. In version 1.100, two new modes are now available for floating windows.

The GitLab Duo Agent Platform for IDEs has a connection to JetBrains IDEs and VS Code, can handle MCP and offers agentic chat ...