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VS Code 1.133: Agent Host Protocol Turns AI Sessions Into Infrastructure

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, and enables multiple clients to connect over SSH or dev tunnels. The spec, published on GitHub under an MIT license, is positioned alongside LSP and DAP, and the release also adds terminal sandboxing on macOS and Linux and removes the GitHub sign-in requirement for Claude.

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VS Code 1.133, released August 12, is not a routine patch. The headline change is the Agent Host Protocol (AHP) — an open specification that moves AI agent sessions into a dedicated standalone process, keeps them alive when you close a window, and lets multiple clients connect to the same session over SSH or dev tunnels. Microsoft published the spec on GitHub under an MIT license, explicitly positioning it alongside LSP and DAP. The same release adds terminal sandboxing on macOS and Linux, and removes the GitHub sign-in requirement for Claude. AI Sessions as Infrastructure AHP is the architectural shift […]

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