Microsoft's latest editor update moves AI collaboration beyond chat, adds new ways to manage agent sessions and gives enterprises more control over coding agents.

Microsoft is increasingly treating Claude as a first-class option across dev tooling and AI products. For one prominent example of that trend, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is extending Claude ...

Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate top-level sessions. Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most ...

Visual Studio Code 1.136 is now available, with Microsoft putting much of the focus on AI agent workflows, pull requests, workspace support, and session management. Microsoft detailed the changes in ...

Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent ...

Visual Studio 2026 can now automatically surface organization-level GitHub Copilot agents across eligible repositories, allowing companies to distribute specialized development agents more broadly.