VS Code: Agent Workspaces Get Flexible, Editor Images Locked Down
Agent session handling dominates today with flexible workspace moves and UI fixes, alongside a new editor option to block remote images in Markdown. Underneath, a broad push cleans up test duplication and pnpm packaging gaps.
Duration: PT2M22S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-03T14:06:36Z
- Audio duration: PT2M22S
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Good morning, it's November 3rd, 2026, and this is your VS Code briefing.
The lead story is maturity for agent sessions. Work around multi-chat workspaces and session switching is converging on fewer surprises when chats move.
The biggest functional change is PR 345805, which lets any chat change its workspace or move to a new worktree, including a chat moved out into its own session and nested chats. That fixes cases where the Copilot agent refused a move because it misidentified the default chat. Related, PR 345784 corrects how…
Second theme is security for rendered Markdown. PR 345756 adds a markdown images allowed origins editor option. Until now, hovers, suggestion details, parameter hints and other editor Markdown loaded every remote image, which meant in the standalone Monaco editor, the author of the code you view could trigger…
Finally, a hygiene sweep. More than a dozen test PRs from Dmitriy Vasyura consolidate duplicated fixtures — a shared telemetry capture service in PR 345778, shared database fakes, plus common setup for tool loops, stream handling and session inputs. On build and compliance, PRs 345794, 345804 and 345786 fold session…
What's next: if you embed Monaco,…
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