See how to delegate tasks to multiple agents in VS Code - local, background, cloud, and even Claude and Codex - to tackle all of your coding tasks, with an updated user experience for managing them all.

🔗 Links:
Release notes: https://aka.ms/VSCode/109
Agents in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/overview
File an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues

🔎 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Agent sessions welcome page
0:49 Tour of agent sessions
2:51 Parallel subagents

🎙️ Featuring: Olivia Guzzardo McVicker (@OliviaGuzzardo)

📲 Follow VS Code:
* X: https://x.com/code
* Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev
* YouTube: https://youtube.com/code
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/104107263
* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

#vscode #agents

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and powerful code editor developed by Microsoft, offering built-in support for multiple programming languages, debugging, and extensions. From this resource developers can learn about VSCode's features, extensions, and customization options to enhance their coding productivity and workflow.

Visual Studio Code

VS Code's latest release introduces comprehensive multi-agent development capabilities, allowing developers to run multiple AI agents simultaneously. The update includes local agents for interactive work, background agents that operate asynchronously in git worktrees, and cloud agents that create pull requests. New features include an agent sessions welcome page, support for multiple providers (Copilot, Claude, Codeex), and parallel sub-agents that handle isolated tasks with independent context. Developers can track all active agents through a unified interface and manage workflows from prompt to commit.

Multi-agent development in VS Code