Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.117 (Insiders)

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VS Code 1.117 (Insiders) release notes covering updates from April 12–15, 2026. Key highlights include Autopilot permission mode persisting across sessions, Agent Host Protocol support for subagents and agent teams, Copilot CLI generating meaningful branch names for background agent sessions, terminal output automatically included in agent results, and Copilot CLI/Claude Code/Gemini CLI recognized as shell types. Also adds package.json dependency hover showing installed vs. latest versions, and JSDoc image rendering improvements for JavaScript and TypeScript.