VS Code Agents window: Orchestrate agents across every project

Visual Studio Code · Intermediate ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·1mo ago

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The VS Code Agents window (Preview) is a dedicated, agent-first companion to the editor, optimized for orchestrating higher-level tasks across multiple projects with chat and the sessions list as the primary interface, so you can run, review, and steer parallel agent sessions from a single place. 🔎 Chapters: 00:00 Intro Agents window 00:52 Why Agents window 02:26 Settings and theming 03:34 Demo 12:00 Extensibility in the Agents window - give us your feedback ✍️ 13:02 Design of Agents window 19:30 The origin story of Agents window 21:48 Wrap 🎙️ Featuring: Reynald Adolphe (@ReynaldAdolphe), Brigit Murtaugh (@BrigitMurtaugh) and Lee Murray (@leeju) 📲 Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/VSCode/LinkedIn GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode #vscode #visualstudiocode #code

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The VS Code Agents window (Preview) is a dedicated, agent-first companion to the editor, optimized for orchestrating higher-level tasks across multiple projects with chat and the sessions list as the primary interface, so you can run, review, and steer parallel agent sessions from a single place. 🔎 Chapters: 00:00 Intro Agents window 00:52 Why Agents window 02:26 Settings and theming 03:34 Demo 12:00 Extensibility in the Agents window - give us your feedback ✍️ 13:02 Design of Agents window 19:30 The origin story of Agents window 21:48 Wrap 🎙️ Featuring: Reynald Adolphe (@ReynaldAdolphe), Brigit Murtaugh (@BrigitMurtaugh) and Lee Murray (@leeju) 📲 Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/VSCode/LinkedIn GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode #vscode #visualstudiocode #code

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Chapters (8)

Intro Agents window

0:52 Why Agents window

2:26 Settings and theming

3:34 Demo

12:00 Extensibility in the Agents window - give us your feedback ✍️

13:02 Design of Agents window

19:30 The origin story of Agents window

21:48 Wrap

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