Visual Studio Weekly: Custom Agents, Profiler Upgrades, and MSVC's 6.5% Performance Jump

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Visual Studio 2026's March update introduces custom agents for Copilot, enhancing team workflow and productivity

intermediate Published 23 Mar 2026

Action Steps

Update to Visual Studio 2026 version 18.4.0
Create custom agents as .agent.md files
Integrate custom agents into Copilot's agent mode
Configure agents to encode team workflow patterns and toolchains

Who Needs to Know This

Development teams, especially those using Copilot, can benefit from custom agents to streamline their workflow and encode institutional knowledge, making collaboration more efficient

Key Insight

💡 Custom agents in Visual Studio 2026 enable teams to declaratively encode their workflow patterns and institutional knowledge into Copilot