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

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

Claude Code has pulled ahead of OpenAI's Codex in VS Code Marketplace adoption metrics for tools tagged with 'agent,' just one way to judge these tools for your particular needs in this rapidly ...

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Most features of the Swift for Visual Studio Code extension only work with projects that build with Swift Package Manager. These projects will have a Package.swift file in their root folder. Support ...

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 ...