Ever wished you had an easy way to debug things you run in a Visual Studio Code terminal? In today's Copilot Chat prerelease, prefix your command with `copilot-debug` and it just works 🌟

The #node:test runner extension for Visual Studio Code now supports snapshot testing: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

And with some ✈️ work the latest version runs with a TypeScript server plugin, so it supports TS better and reuses the AST's your editor already parsed!

Version 1.96 of Visual Studio Code is out now with overtype mode, terminal ligatures, debugging with Copilot, and more! Full release notes: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_96 Here are some of the highlights… 🧵

Laravel VS Code extension ships Monday in public beta. ✨

Announcing GitHub Copilot Free! A new free tier for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in Visual Studio Code No trial. No subscription. No credit card required. Learn more in our blog: aka.ms/copilot-free

Great chance to meet the Remote - SSH Chat Participant! Let Copilot help you set up and diagnose issues with your remote environments 🚀

Sir this is a Wendy's (Visual Studio Code)

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode & MCP support is rolling out to all VS Code users: github.blog/news-insights/…

Big updates in the latest Visual Studio Code release: ✨ Extend agent mode (now available in VS Code Stable!) with MCP tools ✨ A unified chat experience ✨ Use your own API key to access more language models ...and so much more aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Let’s dive in 🧵

Available now in Visual Studio Code Insiders, you can select and add elements directly to Chat! After opening any locally-hosted site via the built-in Simple Browser, click "Start" on the toolbar and select the element you want. This will attach a screenshot of the selected element, as well

💯 v1.100 of Visual Studio Code is here! And we’ve got some great updates for you, like: - Smarter chat responses with new tools - Improved multi-window support - Image and Streamable HTTP support for MCP servers …and so much more. aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Here are some of the highlights…

mcp resources coming soon to a Visual Studio Code near you

📣 #MCP folks, I just merged a PR that makes Visual Studio Code up-to-date on the MCP auth spec✅ works with: * Dynamic Registration * Entra * GitHub If you have a server behind OAuth, please give this a try in tomorrow's Insiders 😊 (pic of PayPal Developer's mcp server) github.com/microsoft/vsco…

#mcp prompts in Visual Studio Code now support completions and can be filled in with terminal commands or files. Quick runthough >

I'm so excited to see Harald Kirschner announce on stage that Visual Studio Code insiders fully supports the MCP spec (including sampling!!!). Things are moving!

I'm excited that Visual Studio Code (Insiders) now supports the full Model Context Protocol (MCP) spec, including sampling! ⚡ I just published a new blog post and video showing how you can use sampling to generate tags for journal entries in an MCP-powered app. Check out what’s possible!

#MCP all the things! 🚀

That 128 tool limit is GONE in Visual Studio Code! Virtual tools just landed and now give you huge flexibility to add more #MCP servers and more extensions to extend agent mode. I break it all down: youtu.be/qHl_KBUyid0 #githubcopilot #vscode

v1.103 of Visual Studio Code is here! Check out what's new: 🚀 GPT-5 rolling out to Visual Studio Code today 🛠️ Enable more than 128 MCP tools with virtual tools ✅ Chat checkpoints 🌳 Git worktree support …and much more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Here are some of the highlights 🧵