VS Code: Agents Window Reliability and Router Tuning
A cluster of Agents window fixes makes Changes tabs, canvases, and chat window layout behave predictably across reloads and hidden sessions, while model router updates and a Copilot proxy change improve routing accuracy and enterprise networking.
Duration: PT2M17S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-08T14:04:43Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Sunday, November eighth, twenty twenty-six, and this is your V-S Code briefing.
The headline: the Agents window is getting reliable. A cluster of work fixes how chats, change reviews, and canvases survive reloads, hidden windows, and session switches.
First, change review correctness. Developers were seeing empty or stale diffs when switching sessions. One fix in pull request thirty-four sixty-seven seventy-seven keeps observing a chat's changes even when no window is showing it, so its Changes tab no longer says no changed files incorrectly. A follow-up in…
Second, chat window layout is stabilizing. Pull request thirty-four sixty-eight twenty-seven makes a drop on a part's edge split that cell instead of jumping across the window, with terminal position remembered across modes and reloads. At the same time, the session activity bar's fixed column and chat windows…
Third, agent intelligence and networking. The model router now sends first turns as plain text and defaults to picking on the first turn, lifting accuracy in internal evals cited in thirty-four sixty-nine eight, while follow-ups in thirty-four sixty-seven ninety-nine switch when the message clearly fits…
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