GitHub today announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new "agent mode" in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code ...

Visual Studio Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to load custom instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks. Agent Skills are defined in a simple folder ...

GitHub is making agent mode with Model Context Protocol support available to all VS Code users and releasing an open-source GitHub MCP server. GitHub has rolled out agent mode and MCP (Model Context ...

Visual Studio Code 1.141 adds Copilot sandboxing, agent session cleanup, a new grid view, and improved GitHub Enterprise support.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...

Microsoft will soon let GitHub Copilot automatically switch between local and cloud AI models, with support for sandboxed ...

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If you are learning to code or would like a little assistance on those harder areas of your script or application. You may be considering using Copilot to offer suggestions, helping you navigate ...

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

When you hear that "AI wrote 800,000 lines of code," you might think that the era where code can be rewritten with the push ...