{"slug": "help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code", "title": "Help Make the New VS Code Pet Work with ALL AI Agents (Cline, Tabby, Kilo Code)! 🐾", "summary": "A developer has opened a feature request in the Microsoft VS Code repository asking that the editor's experimental AI \"pet\" companion, which currently only reacts to GitHub Copilot activity, also recognize open-source AI coding assistants such as Cline, Kilo Code, Tabby, Codeium, and Roo Code. The request has been accepted as a backlog candidate but needs 20 upvotes within 60 days to remain open and be considered for development.", "body_md": "Hey fellow developers! 👋\n\nVS Code recently introduced a fun experimental feature: an interactive \"pet\" companion that sits above the chat input and reacts to AI agent activity.\n\nThe only catch? **It currently only reacts to GitHub Copilot.**\n\nI believe this awesome feature should also recognize free and open-source AI coding assistants like **Cline, Kilo Code, Tabby, Codeium, Roo Code**, and others. \n\nI've opened an official feature request in the VS Code repository, and it has been accepted as a \"Backlog Candidate\". However, there's a rule: **it needs 20 upvotes (👍) within 60 days** to stay open and be considered for development.\n\nIf you use any alternative AI coding assistant and want to see native, playful support for it in VS Code, please take 5 seconds to drop a 👍 reaction on the main post of the issue!\n\n🔗 **Link to upvote:** [https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/335649](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/335649)\n\n*(Note: Only the emoji reaction on the very first post counts towards the VS Code bot's total. Comments like \"+1\" do not work).*\n\nLet's make VS Code more inclusive for all open-source tools! Thanks for your support. 🚀", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/dobbygitnetizen/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code-4bc1", "published_at": "2026-09-12 11:06:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 11:39:33.064130+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Visual Studio Code", "GitHub Copilot", "Microsoft", "Cline", "Kilo Code", "Tabby", "Codeium", "Roo Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-make-the-new-vs-code-pet-work-with-all-ai-agents-cline-tabby-kilo-code.jsonld"}}