VS Code: Agent Session Reliability and Simulation Cleanup
Agent session work dominates with fixes for file-handle exhaustion, feed renewal, and Dev Container startup. Dead Copilot simulation code was removed and the Agents window got usability polish.
Duration: PT2M33S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-10-30T13:06:59Z
- Audio duration: PT2M33S
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Good morning, it's Friday, October 30th, 2026, and this is your VS Code briefing.
The big signal today is agent session reliability at scale, with a second push to delete dead simulation code and polish the Agents window.
First, sessions got faster and fail-closed. PR 345095 fixes startup file-handle exhaustion when the Copilot session store grows to tens of thousands of sessions, by filtering out non-VS Code sessions before opening their files. Related feed work in PRs 345060, 345063 and 345061 moves renewal to server-provided…
Second, cleanup. PRs 345137 and 345067 remove the Azure ML results mode from the Copilot simulation workbench and a never-run command-line simulation test, along with helpers and evaluation services nothing else called. That cuts maintenance and avoids confusion about folders and tooling that no longer live in this…
Third, Agents window usability. PR 345059 rebuilds editor comments as author-first cards with bounded scrolling and cached layout, PR 345053 tidies new-session pickers, and PR 345070 adds a banner after builds hit sixty days old to catch silent update failures. Small theme fixes for Dark, Light and Quiet Light round…
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