Microsoft Build 2026: Multi-Agent VS Code Ships Today — Planner-and-Specialist Architecture for Copilot

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GitHub shipped multi-agent support in VS Code at Build, introducing a planner-and-specialist structure where an orchestrator decomposes objectives, delegates to subagents, and surfaces results in a unified interface with real-time progress monitoring. Developers can steer mid-run without abandoning context. This is Microsoft's direct answer to Claude Code's subagent workflows and Cursor's Composer 2 — the multi-agent coding IDE pattern is now table stakes across all major platforms.