VS Code: Agents Window Freeze Fixes
The Agents window got three major freeze fixes for large sessions, alongside artifact UI polish and core editor corrections. The pattern is stability at scale for agent sessions.
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: 2026-11-13T14:06:50Z
- Audio duration: PT2M25S
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Good morning, it's Friday, November 13th, 2026, and here's your VS Code briefing.
The lead today is performance in the Agents window. Three separate changes eliminate freezes of twenty to sixty seconds when opening or leaving large agent sessions.
First theme is doing less work at scale. PR 348123 stopped freezing for about a minute on sessions with many artifacts, by only sending snapshots that actually changed and routing updates before validation. Related work in PR 348134 fixed a blank, unresponsive window lasting twenty to thirty-five seconds, by…
Second theme is Agents window clarity. PR 348107 adds session previews from the command center, making switching and responding without losing context. Artifact pills get a round of corrections: clicking the active status section now toggles details closed, pull request pills show the rich hover card, and PR 348147…
Finally, smaller reliability fixes. Completion inserts like floor with the cursor inside the parens now track auto-closing pairs correctly, pasting into untitled files respects the detect indentation setting, and Git now remembers your last worktree location and identifies stash editors by commit hash. On…
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