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Agents2026-07-24 · source-backed
InfoWorld reports the release centers on a dedicated surface for managing concurrent agent sessions, not a chat sidebar. Read alongside JetBrains Air and ReSharper 2026.2 from last week, IDE vendors have converged on multi-session management as the new primary UI primitive. The editor is becoming an orchestration console and single-threaded chat panels are being deprecated in practice.
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Released July 22, it brings agentic editing into Microsoft's IDE alongside .NET debugging support for VS Code (JetBrains Blog). Read this as a distribution play, not a feature release. JetBrains is embedding agents where .NET developers already are rather than asking them to s...
Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
Google released Antigravity IDE Extensions, putting its agentic coding platform into VS Code (macOS, Linux, Windows), JetBrains IDEs from 2026.2.1 (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, CLion, Rider), Zed, and Visual Studio 2026 in preview. One Antigravity account works everywh...
Microsoft just turned VS Code from a code editor into an agent orchestration platform, and most developers haven't noticed yet. VS Code 1.116, released April 15, ships three changes that matter. First, Copilot Chat is now built into VS Code natively. No extension install. It's...
Roo Code announced it will archive its VS Code extension repo on May 15 and merge back into Cline, the project it originally forked from. CEO Matt Rubens said the team needs to "constantly destroy and recreate to keep up with what's newly possible." Translation: the extension...
Cursor just admitted that code editing isn't the main event anymore. Cursor 3 abandons its VS Code fork entirely. Not an extension. Not a theme. Gone. Rewritten from scratch in Rust and TypeScript as what Anysphere is calling an "agent orchestration platform." The default view...
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