Microsoft released VS Code 1.135 on August 26, introducing the open, MIT-licensed Agent Host Protocol (AHP) that turns the editor into a universal agent runtime, external session continuity for pickin…
VS Code 1.135, released August 26, introduces the Agent Host Protocol (AHP), an open, MIT-licensed specification that decouples AI agent sessions from the editor window, allowing sessions to persist i…
VS Code 1.134, released August 19, introduces a dedicated Agent Host process that runs AI agent sessions as a standalone service, enabling sessions to span multiple windows and survive window closes. …
Microsoft's VS Code 1.133, released August 12, introduces the Agent Host Protocol (AHP), an open specification that runs AI agent sessions in a standalone process, persists them across window closures…
Microsoft's Agent Host Protocol, an open-source MIT-licensed specification at version 0.7 with a reference implementation in VS Code, defines how AI agents request human approval for tool calls, but i…
Visual Studio Code now runs Anthropic's Claude as a first-party coding agent, reusing the Claude Agent SDK and running it in a dedicated Agent Host process, allowing a single GitHub Copilot subscripti…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.130 on July 22, introducing the Agent Host Protocol that runs AI agent sessions in a dedicated process independent of editor windows, a new assisted permissions model that…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.129 on July 15, introducing a dedicated agent host that runs agent harnesses like Claude, Copilot, and Codex via the Agent Host Protocol, enabling sessions to p…
VS Code 1.129, released July 15 by Microsoft, introduces the Agent Host, which moves AI coding agents into a dedicated background process, preventing agent failures from freezing the editor and enabli…
GitHub released the May 2026 updates for Copilot in Visual Studio Code, introducing the Agents window as a stable preview feature for task-oriented coding and expanding bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model…