VS Code was already used by millions of developers for agentic coding. However, the editor layout has traditionally been optimized for single-task and single-workspace workflows. Today, we're introducing a new window to enable our users (and ourselves!) to work with multiple agents across multiple projects: Agents. Now available in... VS Code stable!show more

Agents window reflects how our own workflows on the VS Code team evolved to focus more on higher-level partnership with the agent. A year ago, many of us used to spend an immense amount of time following the specific agent trajectory, including the tool calls and edits it made. Now, we spend our time building alignment with the models with features like Plan mode, and reviewing outcomes as a first step rather than code.

The Agents window also expands our vision with Agent HQ to not just give you choice in state of the art models, but also harnesses as well. Give our Claude agent integration a try, all powered by your GitHub Copilot subscription:

We also want to be able to continue our work from anywhere. The Agents window also includes support for remote development, allowing you to connect to coding agents running in remote hosts, such as a cloud sandbox.

We also built a brand new experience to allow you to work from the browser (including mobile!) with your coding agents!

I look forward to the Codex harness being included. This is the way.

Terrific! Do you use the words "Agents" and "sessions" interchangeably? Or is an "agent" a combination of repo with its skills and enabled MCP Servers?

Nope, though sometimes I accidentally do :D Agent = core agent loop = the prompt, tools, context. In VS Code, we support multiple agent types, including VS Code (Local), Copilot CLI, Claude Session = An instance of that agent in a particular repo/workspace

@burkeholland @pierceboggan this app shows NO Love to the ultimate Remote Session WSL - what about sessions in devcontainers as well??? Also another awesome “Remote Session” 😭

@burkeholland Adding @BrigitMurtaugh for Agents app + remote development

any plan to support TUI ? actually I mean the support for opencode / codex / claude code

We love VS code! Thanks for shipping this

Nice feature, but I cancelled my GitHub Copilot Pro+ account now, because of the high prices coming up... Good luck!

Thanks for shipping this @pierceboggan! VS Code rocks 🤘🏻

Hey quick question, is there information to access, why suddenly my locally hosted models and BYOMs (from Foundry etc.) are no longer visible and accessible via VS Code Chat or Agents? Is there a shift?

It’s the ADHD window!

只能使用copilot的模型，我不会去用，我使用codex，claude价格公道。

Agents window is the right primitive. The pain is not launching another agent; it is keeping repo state, diffs, terminal output, and handoff visible when two projects are moving at once.

I’ve been using it a lot the past few weeks. 😎

What do you think?

I'm so glad we're building this! Lots of thoughts. Will ping you.

Well done team; I've been using it for sometime glad to see it in stable. Do you have a plan for scheduled tasks say that run on cloud and/or PC

congrats on the 🚢!

#coolstorybro I ran out of premium requests from my copilot pro+ subscription in the first week, all(most?) requests are user initiated. The allotment does not match the IDE/AI work @code is making. Difficult position to be in for me.

love visual studio code for agentic development much better that anything else out there. but multiple agents across multiple projects... sounds like software apocalypse.

Too bad no one can afford to do that now.

wicked

Remote SSH sessions will not work/break for me ...

This looks like superset!

@sseraphini 👏🏽👏🏽

@film_girl Is actual programming still supported? I use vscode since Atom inception. It would be kind of sad to update one day and see code editor gone.

@film_girl 💯, editor isn't going anywhere! We are landing improvements to that experience too. New markdown experience just shipped yesterday!

@film_girl Oh yes, I was pleasantly surprised with that yesterday! These days it was unexpected. It is actually what I was missing from vs code and thus it is a very welcome addition!

It's my daily. Love it!

WTF? i cant buy other plans , this is bullshit

Odd bug, with @claudeai windows I'm only ever seeing Haiku as the model, despite the existing sessions being Sonnet or Opus. Known issue?

Doesn't really matter. The upcoming copilot changes make all this kinda useless. Let's wait a few months to see what will change after 20-30%+ of the users will cancel their copilot sub.

The app looks / feels great. The only thing: I’m not trying to pay API usage rates with 3rd party models.

running multiple agents across projects at once is exactly where the real productivity gains are, the single-task editor felt like a bottleneck once you get used to parallel work

it's indeed a good app, but unfortunately I stopped using it at the company months ago due to the lack of GHE cloud support. Session delegation to copilot cli doesn't work when the host is not the default one. Which is quite odd since GitHub and VS Code are backed by Microsoft

Have you been able to manage what happens when two of those agents edit the same file? Worktrees isn't the solution....

@JamesMontemagno Need more sidebars @pierceboggan !

Looks great.. looking forward to using it.