VS Code has evolved into the unified home for multi-agent development—where developers delegate, orchestrate, and collaborate with AI agents across local, background, and cloud environments. This keynote demo will showcase how the latest updates make working with multiple agents seamless, powerful, and secure.

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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.

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VS Code's Agent Sessions Day keynote showcases a new multi-agent workflow where developers act as orchestrators managing multiple AI agents simultaneously. The demo features running five concurrent agent sessions from a single dashboard: generating ASCII art banners, fixing terminal rendering bugs, implementing user story features, migrating from Ink to OpenTUI, and running a 'dogfooding' agent that uses Playwright to evaluate workshop content from a learner's perspective. Key capabilities highlighted include plan mode with background sub-agents, work trees for isolated background tasks, cloud-delegated PR agents, hooks for per-tool-call control, terminal sandboxing, and MCP integration (WorkIQ for Teams/meeting transcripts). The recommended mental model shifts from engineer to 'technical project manager of agents,' with guidance to start by keeping visual/exploratory work local while delegating well-defined tasks to background or cloud agents.

VS Code Live: Agent Sessions Day - Keynote