VS Code: Agent Host Migration Holds Enterprise Line
Agent Host rollout dominates with enterprise policy and sandbox fixes to preserve controls during migration, alongside chat reliability fixes and shared request infrastructure work. The main pattern is hardening the Copilot agent transition without loosening security or breaking edge-case models.
Duration: PT2M48S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-10-02T13:08:01Z
- Audio duration: PT2M48S
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Good morning, it's Friday, October 2nd, 2026, and this is your VS Code developer briefing.
The lead story is the migration from the local harness to Agent Host, and the team is making sure enterprise guardrails survive the move.
First, enterprise controls. PR 339023 enables conversion of legacy policy into unified managed settings by default, removing a separate opt-in, so existing admin rules carry over when rollout or explicit selection chooses Agent Host. PR 339144 closes a related gap on Mac and Linux, where a per-session sandbox off…
Second, chat reliability for edge cases. PR 339130 fixes the tabbed model picker for Copilot Free and Student plans, which only get Auto and were breaking the picker. PR 339077 preserves reasoning text for custom OpenAI-compatible models that stream without reasoning IDs, so it isn't lost on the next tool call. PR…
Finally, platform plumbing. Commit 6cbc8f5, from PR 339208, extracts shared request, queue, and cooldown logic out of GitHub-specific code to make future Copilot work safer. PR 339279 bumps the bundled Codex software kit to version 0.157, adapting to removed legacy rollback support. New canvases are now gated off by…
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