Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release adds contextual side conversations, element-level web feedback and several smaller editor refinements.

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Codistry combines a model-flexible coding agent with a local repository index designed to help it understand how a project ...