Visual Studio is shipping a set of built-in preset agents (Debugger, Profiler, Test, Modernize) that integrate deeply with IDE tooling, plus a custom agent framework in preview. Custom agents are defined as `.agent.md` files in `.github/agents/` and can connect to external knowledge sources via MCP—enabling use cases like

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