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The Coding Harness: Why the Model Matters Less Than You Think
The coding harness assembles context, exposes tools, runs the agent loop, and evaluates behavior. Understanding that layer is central to reliable .NET workflows in VS Code.
VS Code 1.113: Agent Workflows, Chat Customization, and the Thinking Model
VS Code 1.113 brings unified chat customizations, configurable thinking effort, nested subagents, and MCP support to CLI agent workflows.
How VS Code Builds with AI: Lessons from Weekly Releases
The VS Code team's AI-assisted development workflow offers practical lessons in parallel work, issue triage, automated validation, and human judgment.
VS Code 1.111: Agent Workflows Gain Autonomy and Debug Visibility
VS Code 1.111 adds session-level permission modes, Autopilot preview, agent-scoped hooks, and debug snapshots for safer autonomous workflows.
Making Agents Practical for Real-World Development
VS Code's agent improvements address scale, memory, steering, hooks, browser verification, and reusable skills for multi-turn development work.
VS Code 1.110: Making Agents Practical for Complex Tasks
The February release brings better agent visibility, session persistence, browser verification, and extensibility to long-running .NET development workflows.
Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions Understand Refactoring Patterns
VS Code's next-edit suggestions can look farther across a file to predict related changes. Here is where the feature helps .NET refactors and where it stops.
VS Code Becomes a Home for Multi-Agent Development
A unified place for local, background, cloud, and third-party coding agents changes how .NET teams divide work and review results.
VS Code 1.109 Makes Multi-Agent Workflows Practical
VS Code 1.109 brings multiple coding agents, session management, parallel subagents, and better steering into one developer workflow.
VS Code Implements Full MCP Specification: Enterprise Security Meets Extensibility
Complete Model Context Protocol support arrives with authorization, prompts, resources, and sampling. A milestone in standardized AI agent integration and enterprise-grade security.
Your .NET Repository Needs a Context Layer Before It Needs a Bigger Prompt
Custom instructions turn Copilot from a general assistant into a teammate that understands a .NET repository's conventions, architecture, and delivery rules.
VS Code 1.117: Agents Are Getting Their Own Git Branches and I'm Here For It
VS Code 1.117 ships worktree isolation for agent sessions, persistent Autopilot mode, and subagent support. The agentic coding workflow just got way more real.
VS Code 1.116 — Agents App Gets Keyboard Navigation and File Context Completions
VS Code 1.116 focuses on Agents app polish — dedicated keybindings, accessibility improvements, file-context completions, and CSS @import link resolution.
VS Code 1.115 — Background Terminal Notifications, SSH Agent Mode, and More
VS Code 1.115 brings background terminal notifications for agents, SSH remote agent hosting, file paste in terminals, and session-aware edit tracking. Here's what matters for .NET developers.