VS Code: Agent Host Protocol Upgrade and Performance Fixes
Agent Host work dominated the day with an upgrade to protocol version 1.1, scheduled-chat triggers, and major performance fixes. Sessions scheduling got more usable while security prompts and platform polish rounded out the release.
Duration: PT2M16S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-14T14:05:55Z
- Audio duration: PT2M16S
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Hello, it's Friday, November 14th, and this is your VS Code briefing.
The lead story is the Agent Host growing up fast — a protocol upgrade, a scheduling model change, and fixes for serious scaling pain.
First, protocol. The team adopted Agent Host Protocol version 1.1 with backward compatibility, in PR 348236, sending both old and new field names so older hosts stay connected during the transition. On top of that, PR 348240 adopts upstreamed one-time triggers for scheduled chats, replacing a local patch and moving…
Second, performance and correctness at scale. PR 348167 fixed a costly fan-out where one git refresh recomputed branch changes for every worktree in a session — about 1,100 git commands and 900 database opens in a minute on a 16-chat session, causing timeouts and lag. Follow-up PR 348285 skips changeset catalog…
Third, trust and Sessions usability. PR 348216 now asks before a Copilot extension reads sensitive environment variables, and PR 348262 stops sending the Microsoft account display label to the host. On the user side, Send Later gets a calendar picker instead of typed dates in PR 348257, plus an In 10 Minutes option…
Also notable: pull request CI now checks the…
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