Visual Studio Code backs multi-chat Claude sessions

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code 1.128 adds support for multi-chat agent sessions using Anthropic Claude agents, enabling developers to compare approaches, branch from earlier turns, and run work in parallel. The update also makes Copilot Vision generally available, allowing users to attach images and PDFs in chat. This release enhances AI-assisted coding capabilities within the popular code editor.

Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most recent edition of Microsoft’s code editor https://www.infoworld.com/article/2335960/what-is-visual-studio-code-microsofts-extensible-code-editor.html , 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 https://code.visualstudio.com/Download? exp download=fb315fc982 . 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.