VS Code: Agent Routing, Chat Windows, and Build Cleanup
Agent Host work centers on smarter model selection and recovery from disconnects, while chat windows gain full session workflows. Engineering cleanup for package management rounds out the day.
Duration: PT2M32S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-07T14:05:34Z
- Audio duration: PT2M32S
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Good morning, it's Friday, November 7th, 2026.
The lead today is Copilot's Agent Host getting both smarter and more resilient, while separate chat windows mature into a real workspace.
First, routing and reliability. Pull request 346652 adds experimental model routers for Copilot. Behind an off-by-default preview setting, a router appears as a model in the picker, then asks a decisions model each turn which route fits the request. It includes validation, telemetry scrubbing, and a built-in skill…
Second, the Agents window. Pull request 346678 lets a chat window start a new session in place, with its own draft slot, group handling, and restore after reload, so it never steals the main composer. Pull request 346752 fixes the Changes pill to open its own chat's diffs and restores canvases after Changes closes,…
Finally, engineering hygiene. Four changes, including 346742, 346749 and 346758, declare dependencies per workspace member toward isolated installs for the pnpm migration. Also notable: a memory leak fix in debounced observables in 346498, and a revert of experimentation header changes in 346726.
What's next: try model routers only via settings file if you need per-task routing,…
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