VS Code Copilot Chat uses a compaction mechanism to summarize older conversation history when the agent session exceeds the LLM's context window, triggered automatically or via the /compact command. T…
Ava Supernova, an open-source AI coding agent, launches with support for open-weight LLMs, offering 60+ tools, 7 modes, and 24 specialist personas. The agent is free to start, local-first, and require…
CircleCI Principal Engineer Michael Webster presented how AI is transforming software development at the company, highlighting three epochs: manual copy-paste, AI-assisted IDEs, and headless agents. H…
Developer Elio Struyf built copilot-mock-server, a local proxy that intercepts GitHub Copilot chat traffic and returns scripted responses, to solve demo reliability issues where AI responses vary in c…
Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.126 on June 24 with session-level cost tracking for GitHub Copilot chat, responding to developer backlash after Copilot's June 1 switch to token-based billing caused costs …
A developer built a Spring Boot MCP server that exposes database queries, REST API calls, and file system access as tools for AI agents like Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor. The project highlights …
GitHub introduced an enterprise setting this week that restricts which extension and plugin marketplaces are allowed in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, framing marketplace policy as a runtime boundary…
Claude Code, an agentic coding tool from Anthropic, excels at autonomous multi-file tasks when used with proper planning and review, but fails when treated as an inline editor like Cursor. Users must …
GitHub announced two harness-level improvements to Copilot agentic sessions—prompt caching achieving 94% cache hit rates and deferred tool loading—plus a new Auto model selection feature using its HyD…
GitHub announced public preview of strictKnownMarketplaces enterprise-managed settings for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, enabling administrators to restrict plugin installations to approved marketpl…
Topos, an open-source tool from Krv-Labs, evaluates code quality by mapping programs to structural graphs and calculating metrics for simplicity, composability, and security. It aims to address the bo…
A developer built SafeDevTools, a collection of browser-based developer utilities, using only a local LLM (Gemma 4:12B) running on a MacBook M4 Pro with Ollama and VS Code. The project demonstrated th…
Developer l-zhi released Pith, a local-first desktop LLM wiki that ingests notes, PDFs, and emails into Markdown entries without using vector databases or embeddings, relying instead on keyword search…
Python core developer Brett Cannon proposed PEP 832 to standardize virtual environment discovery, addressing the difficulty tools like VS Code face in locating environments across different workflow t…
Claude Code's voice mode in VS Code on macOS requires the `sox` audio tool and microphone permission for Visual Studio Code. A common failure occurs when VS Code is not granted mic access before launc…
Microsoft's VS Code team published findings from 50,000 runs of a 5-line evaluation, revealing how AI coding models calibrate effort, token cost, and tool use. The blog also announced new features inc…
Halyard, an open-source AI work ledger for developers, launched in alpha to track time, tokens, cost, and invoices across AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The tool captures session metadata as pl…
A developer describes how to deploy a first software tool online using AI-assisted workflows. The process involves connecting code in version control, a host, and a domain, with AI tools like Claude o…
Pith, a new developer tool, launches a macOS preview that gives AI agents durable project memory capable of handling changed facts and corrections. The tool addresses the problem of agents forgetting …
A developer published a guide to Claude Code's status line feature, a customizable bar at the bottom of the terminal that displays real-time session data such as model name, context usage, cost, and c…