Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most recent edition of Microsoft’s code editor, adds support for multi-chat agent sessions using Anthropic Claude agents.
Introduced July 8, VS Code 1.28 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac from code.visualstudio.com.
With VS Code 1.28, multi-chat agent sessions now support using Anthropic Claude agents. With multiple chats, a session can contain related chats, allowing users to compare approaches, branch from an earlier turn, and run work in parallel. Users can add chats, fork a chat from an existing turn, switch between peer chats, and send turns concurrently. Each chat keeps its own history, title, and model selection, and restores with the parent session after restart, Microsoft said.
VS Code 1.28 also makes Copilot Vision generally available. With Copilot Vision, VS Code users can attach images and PDFs by pasting them into chat, dragging and dropping them, or using the context menu. Images also may be read by the agent via a tool call, Microsoft said.
Also in VS Code 1.28:
systemWide
to a keybinding definition in keybindings.json
to make it OS-level.workbench.browser.newTabPlacement
. The setting provides three options: to open browser tabs in the active editor group, in a dedicated group to the side, or in a dedicated auxiliary window. OTEL_*
environment variables. The managed configuration applies to both the Copilot Chat extension and the agent host process.