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🚀 Better prompts. Smarter agents. More control. The latest @code release introduces the Chat Customizations Evaluation extension, designed to help analyze and refine your prompts, agents, instructions, and skills.

😴 Fire, forget, sleep. VS Code agents that run without you [LTG404] Local, background, and cloud runs. Parallel sessions, handoffs, and orchestration from one view. 🔗 Register: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions…

🧩 MCP does way more than you think [LTG403] Connect Copilot to databases, APIs, and internal systems across the editor, CLI, and cloud. First look at MCP Apps with real UI in chat. 🔗 Register: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions…

🚀 Microsoft Build is almost here, June 2-3, in San Francisco & online! The @code team is sharing insights on agents, Copilot, MCP, and how we build and ship VS Code every week. 🧶 Here's the lineup:

Want to see what happens behind each prompt? 🔍 Agent Debug Logs lets you inspect chat interactions, tool calls, model requests, prompt discovery, agent flows, and more. code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/c…

Enterprises can now control chat and related AI feature activation in VS Code with the ⚙️ ChatApprovedAccountOrganizations policy. This policy helps organizations enforce approved GitHub account access across chat entry points. Chat stays off until a user signs in with a GitHub account from an approved org and account-based policy has been resolved. 🔒 Learn more: code.visualstudio.com/docs/enterpris…

🔎 Also in this release: chat session insights, codebase search across workspaces & GitHub, dedicated skill context, and more. 🔗 Explore the weekly updates: aka.ms/VSCode/118 Happy coding! 💙

🚀 Better prompts. Smarter agents. More control. The latest @code release introduces the Chat Customizations Evaluation extension, designed to help analyze and refine your prompts, agents, instructions, and skills.

Install Agent Plugins in VS Code to add skills, commands, MCP servers, hooks, and more ⚡

⭐ Ready to shape AI around your workflow in @Code? We just dropped new VS Code Learn content with our Customizations course, focused on helping you tailor AI in VS Code using custom agents, instructions, skills, prompt files, and hooks. Start the learning path with Ep 1: aka.ms/customization-…

The @code team is shipping fast, with new updates landing every week. Here are a few recent highlights

@openaidevs GPT-5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot! Give it a try in VS Code and let us know what you think!

The fastest way to copy/paste in VS Code ⚡ Plus a multi-line editing trick every developer should know. 👇

Add a little fun to your coding sessions 🐶🐱 This extension lets you keep a virtual pet right inside VS Code.

We just launched the VS Code Newsletter on LinkedIn! 💙 Explore the latest VS Code features, tips, and workflows. 👉 Subscribe: aka.ms/VSCode/News

Big update for AI workflows in VS Code. Bring your own language model/API key is now available in GitHub Copilot. More flexibility. More control. More experimentation. 👇 aka.ms/BYOK-Business

Bring your own key in @code is now available to all Copilot plans, including Free, Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise! Use the best agent harness with local providers like @lmstudio or cloud providers like @OpenRouter :) #_bring-your-own-key-for-copilot-business-and-enterprise" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_117…