VS Code: Agents Lifecycle Cleanup and Trust Fixes
Today's VS Code activity centers on Agents window lifecycle — independent side-chat completion, worktree cleanup, and clearer session listing — alongside Agent Host certificate forwarding, MCP auth and enablement fixes, and Markdown editor reliability improvements.
Duration: PT2M25S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-10-28T13:07:35Z
- Audio duration: PT2M25S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Wednesday, October twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-six, and this is your V S Code briefing.
The throughline today is lifecycle cleanup in the Agents window: making side chats, worktrees, and automation sessions behave predictably when they're done, archived, or moved.
First, side chats get independent completion. Pull request thirty-four forty-six sixty-eight lets you mark a side chat done without closing its parent, while thirty-four forty-six sixty-nine releases private folders and changeset watchers on archive and fixes sandbox routing. Paired with pull request thirty-four…
Second, trust and configuration hygiene across Agent Host and M C P. Pull request thirty-four forty-six forty-two fixes GitHub M C P authenticate doing nothing after a connector credential downgrade, while thirty-four forty-six fifty-two removes unused inputs on server uninstall preserving shared references, and…
Finally, small editor correctness fixes with outsized user impact. Pull request thirty-four forty-six thirty-eight stops the Markdown editor webview resyncing on dirty state changes, fixing dropped keystrokes with auto save after delay, and thirty-four forty-seven oh-four adds an…
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