VS Code: Agents Window Reliability and Agent Host Hardening
Multi-window chat and session handling gets more predictable, while Agent Host gains tighter sandbox and auth controls. Build tooling also shifts to oxlint-only checks and isolated unit-test runs.
Duration: PT2M18S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-12T14:07:36Z
- Audio duration: PT2M18S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Thursday, November twelfth, twenty twenty-six.
The big signal today is reliability for multi-window agent work. Moving chats between windows, switching folder locations, and archiving sessions are behaving more predictably.
In the Agents window, pull request thirty-four seventy-four forty fixes open chat in window losing its editors. The grid hold was taken before the new window existed, so the main layout stashed the working set and found nothing to move. It now waits until the content has a bound window. Related work persists folder…
Second theme is Agent Host security and remote connections. Pull request thirty-four seventy-seven fifty-five adds workspace-scoped sandbox file system grants, and pull request thirty-four seventy-seven seventy-five prompts for sign-in when the GitHub session lacks Copilot scopes. For remotes, pull request…
Third is engineering hygiene. Pull request thirty-four seventy-seven thirty-two removes E S Lint entirely in favor of oxlint, pull request thirty-four seventy-eight fifty-seven runs changed unit test files in isolation to catch hidden dependencies, and the security check now runs only tee-sec rules without a second…
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