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VS Code 1.111 Ships Autopilot Mode — Full Auto-Approve Agent Execution

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Three permission tiers: Default Approvals, Bypass Approvals, and Autopilot (Preview) which auto-approves all tool calls, retries errors, and auto-responds to agent questions until task_complete. Agent-scoped hooks enable per-session pre/post processing. Source

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