Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

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.

Semgrep is a fast, static analysis tool powered by an open-source engine for finding bugs, detecting vulnerabilities, and enforcing code standards. Semgrep Visual Studio Code extension scans lines ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces structured, multi-agent workflows that move AI assistance beyond single-chat interactions. Parallel subagents enable concurrent task execution without consuming the ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...