Visual Studio Code v1.136 Changelog

The big picture of this release is all about managing your AI assistants (or "agents"). If you use AI tools like Copilot or Claude to help you code, this update makes them much better at handling big, messy projects and finishing tasks without needing you to babysit them. It’s a major upgrade for developers who use AI to juggle multiple tasks at once.

What's new

• Agent Merge (Preview): When you finish a feature and submit a pull request (a request to merge your new code into the main project), it often gets kicked back for fixes. This feature lets an AI agent step in and fix review comments, broken tests, and merge conflicts automatically, repeating the process until it's ready to merge.
• Organized Chat Sessions: Your AI chats are now grouped together like files inside folders. When an AI splits a big job into smaller chats, they show up under one main "session." Each chat shows its status and if it's waiting for you to approve something, making it easy to see exactly what needs your attention.
• Chat Backgrounds (Experimental): You can now customize the background of your AI chat window. You can either use a built-in pattern of VS Code icons or upload your own image. It even adjusts depending on if you're using a dark or light theme!
• Agent Notifications: If you have an AI working in another window, VS Code can now send you a pop-up notification when it finishes its job or needs you to approve a change.

Improvements

• Multi-root Workspace Support (Experimental): A "multi-root workspace" is just a project where your code is spread across several different folders on your computer. AI agents can now see and work across *all* those folders at the same time, rather than just one.
• Smarter Workspace Commands: You no longer have to copy and paste long, complicated file paths to tell the AI where to work. You can just say "run this in the vscode project," and the AI will figure it out. If you have two projects with the same name, it will ask you which one you mean instead of guessing wrong.
• Redesigned Session Setup: The menu for starting a new AI task got a makeover. It now puts your prompt, the AI model you want to use, and the project folder all in one clean layout so you can get to work faster.
• Cleaner File Labels: When an AI creates temporary files in the background, the little navigation breadcrumbs at the top of the screen now show readable names instead of confusing computer code.

Fixes

• No specific bug fixes were listed in this release.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.