VSCode August 2025 (v1.104)
9 hours ago
- #VS Code
- #AI
- #Productivity
- Model flexibility: VS Code now automatically selects the best model for optimal performance and avoids rate limits.
- Security enhancements: Users must confirm edits to sensitive files, and agents can run terminal commands safely.
- Productivity improvements: Distractions in chat file edits are removed, and AGENTS.md files provide chat context.
- Auto model selection in chat: VS Code chooses between models like Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, and Gemini Pro 2.5.
- Confirm edits to sensitive files: Additional safety layer when using agent mode to prevent accidental or malicious edits.
- Support for AGENTS.md files: Automatically picked up as context for chat requests, useful for teams using multiple AI agents.
- Improved changed files experience: Collapsed by default, shows file changes count, and removes files after accepting changes.
- Custom chat modes in prompt files: Now supports referencing custom chat modes in prompt files for more flexibility.
- Configure prompt file suggestions: Context-aware suggestions for prompt files based on workspace and file type.
- Terminal auto approve: Enhanced usability and security with configurable settings and explicit opt-in requirements.
- Global auto approve: Now requires explicit user confirmation with a clearer setting name for better protection.
- Math rendering enabled by default: Powered by KaTeX, supports inline and block math equations in chat responses.
- Improved task support: Better input request detection, error detection for tasks, and support for compound tasks.
- Terminal IntelliSense improvements: More reliable completions, additional command specs, and performance enhancements.
- AI-powered hover summaries with Pylance: Experimental feature providing on-the-fly summaries for Python symbols.
- Run code snippet tool: Executes Python snippets in memory with clean, well-formatted output for clarity.
- GitHub Pull Requests extension updates: Includes new features like side bar content collapsing and TODO code actions.
- Language Model Chat Provider API: Finalized API enabling extensions to contribute additional language models.
- Authentication: Proposed API for handling WWW-Authenticate challenges in getSession for better auth support.
- View containers in the Secondary Side Bar: Extensions can now contribute view containers to the secondary sidebar.
- Engineering improvements: Exploring Playwright and Playwright MCP for better inner development loop in VS Code.