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Open source works best when communities build together. Today, we’re open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension—the first step in making VS Code the open source AI editor. Built for and WITH developers. #VSCode #GitHubCopilot

🚀 We're hiring a Senior PM to bring AI superpowers to VS Code! Impact 50M+ developers. Ship daily. Build the future of coding with AI. Looking for a technical PM who can code & loves moving fast: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Questions or know someone perfect? DM me!

You can configure the @Stripe MCP server in Visual Studio Code with one click. Just head over to code.visualstudio.com/mcp

some great community contributions rolling in, like this for bringing any OpenAI compatible endpoint to Visual Studio Code: github.com/microsoft/vsco…

We added a browser to GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (via Playwright). 🌐 Coding agent will now run a dev web server in the background, open up its browser to test out changes, and include screenshots in the PRs it opens. 🤯 github.blog/changelog/2025…

and in Visual Studio Code you will soon have a great experience to work with both the agent in IDE and async coding agent from one place!

Now Visual Studio Code will generate your copilot-instructions file for you. You will get CRAZY better results by having these instructions for the AI...

TypeScript 5.9 Beta just went out! Try it in your project and let us know what you think: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/ann…

One of the most useful capabilities to come along outside of applying AI to software development. This is a must-try.

In case you missed it: Visual Studio Code has reached the first milestone as the open source AI editor. Read more about why we decided to open source the AI capabilities, how you can contribute, and what's next: aka.ms/oss-ai-editor

Copilot coding agent now supports remote MCP servers github.blog/changelog/2025…

🚀 VS Code 1.102 is here! 🧠 Smarter. 🎯 More personalized. 🌐 More open. Building the future of dev tools together. 🔗

This is a significant change to the billing model for the GitHub coding agent that will make pricing simpler and more predictable.

Background coding agent tasks now in #vscode!!! This incredible!!! Start working or assign a task at any time to the agent and it will start working on it on a new branch in the cloud so you can work on something else. code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_102…

We've integrated background tasks with Copilot coding agent into VS Code in the 1.102 release 🎉. 1. Delegate agent mode sessions to coding agent 2. See coding agent PRs in VS Code 3. Track coding agent sessions in VS Code 4. Open up coding agent PRs in local workspace

The line number margin in Visual Studio is being tightened up to maximize horizontal space in the editor. I'm irrationally excited about this. Coming soon...

We kept our heads down. We shipped over 230 Copilot updates in the last year. Turns out, hard work…works. The grind continues. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmati…