🛠️ Custom instructions are more powerful than they seem. They help teams turn standards and shared practices into always-on context for Copilot. That means agents work the way your team works from the get-go. So, you spend less time reviewing and course-correcting. If you want to get more value from AI in day-to-day development, read the new issue of the VS Code Newsletter 📩 Happy coding!
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🚀 Remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code sessions is now generally available. Monitor progress, approve actions, and respond to prompts from anywhere. Give it a try!
Start work on your computer, continue your local session anywhere. 📲 Remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code sessions is now generally available. https://lnkd.in/g_kv34-M
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🤖 Multi-agent patterns in VS Code you won't learn from docs Using one agent is straightforward. This session gets into how to split work across several, when to fork or delegate, and how to keep quality high. 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/eBCBvtz8
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🖥️ Risk assessment for terminal commands VS Code now shows a risk badge before you confirm a command, with an AI-generated explanation of what it actually does. 🟢 Safe: reads files or prints output, no changes made. 🟠 Caution: modifies your workspace, installs packages, or sends data over the network. 🔴 Review carefully: may be difficult or impossible to undo. To enable this experimental feature, open your settings and search for chat.tools.riskAssessment.enabled
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🧠 The conversation around AI for developers usually starts with the model. But inside VS Code, what really shapes the experience is the coding harness: the layer responsible for context, tool calling, agent loops, terminal execution, memory, and more. In this new post, the engineering team dives into how GitHub Copilot in VS Code works behind the scenes.
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Visual Studio Code reposted this
Here's how you paste rich text as markdown in Visual Studio Code. https://lnkd.in/d4MRxUe8
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🪄 Your agent experience, refined. The latest VS Code release brings better BYOK visibility and control. It also introduces the new Agents window (preview), making it easier to explore, iterate on, and review tasks across multiple projects. 🔎 More highlights: 🌐 Integrated browser improvements 🔎 Markdown preview for diffs ⚠️ Terminal risk assessment and output compression 📝 Inline plan editing for Claude and Copilot CLI 🔗 Explore the weekly updates: https://aka.ms/VSCode/120 🎥 Join the VS Code Release Livestream tomorrow, May 14 at 9 AM PT to see the team demo some of the latest features live! https://aka.ms/VSCode/Live Happy coding! 💙
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🤖 GitHub Copilot Dev Days Online runs May 25–27. Join livestreams in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Chinese to build faster with AI and explore agentic development in VS Code. See the sessions and register here: https://aka.ms/ghcp-online
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Your chat history is now searchable 🔍 Chronicle (Experimental) helps you revisit coding sessions, generate standups, and get insights from your workflow. ⚙️ Enable: github.copilot.chat.localIndex.enabled