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Also featured as part of Agent HQ is a new plan agent that breaks down complex tasks step-by-step before any code is written. Selecting Plan from the agents dropdown in the Chat view gets this started. When tackling a multi-step implementation, VS Code prompts the user with clarifying questions and generates a detailed implementation plan to be approved first, ensuring all requirements and context are captured up front. Developers can create a custom plan agent tailored to a team”s specific workflow and tools. GitHub last month launched Agent HQ for managing AI agents, emphasizing its extension to VS Code.
Visual Studio Code 1.106 also features updates to cloud agent sessions in the editor. The Copilot coding agent integration has been migrated from the GitHub Pull Request extension into the Copilot Chat extension to provide a more native cloud agent experience in VS Code. The release also includes an initial integration with the Copilot CLI. Users can create new sessions and resume existing CLI agent sessions in a chat editor or an integrated terminal.
Code editing also gets attention in Visual Studio Code 1.106. Deleted code in the diff editor now is selectable. Previously, when code was deleted and the changes viewed in the diff editor, the deleted lines could not be copied. Now, developers can copy text from deleted lines in the diff editor when using the inline diff view. In addition, the Go to Line command now supports navigating to a specific character position in a file by using the :: syntax. This is useful when tools report errors at specific character offsets, such as “error at position 599.”
