VS Code: Chasing Down the Agents Window Hangs and Leaks
A cluster of fixes targeted stability in the Agents window — a hung Copilot CLI turn, a plan-review memory leak, and heap-eating repository objects — while a second wave of PRs tightened security around telemetry and configuration handling.
Duration: PT2M35S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-07-26T13:03:30Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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Good morning. It's July 26th, and the story in VS Code today is stability work in the Agents window, plus a handful of security hardening passes.
Start with the headline: a nearly two-hour hang traced back to the Copilot CLI client. Rob Lourens's PR 327483 found that a routine config change — things like session sync or SDK log level — was tearing down every active chat session immediately, even mid-turn. That left users staring at a spinner with no error and…
That pattern — resources not being released when things go wrong — shows up again in PR 327491. A heap snapshot of the Agents window found over a gigabyte held by stale git repository objects: 137 retained where only 28 should have existed, each dragging along its full set of refs. Three undisposed listeners were…
Second theme: locking down what data goes where. PR 327475 escapes dynamic values in the customizations index to prevent injection through instruction files. PR 327500 restricts the ADO code search endpoint override so workspace settings can't redirect a credential-bearing request. And PR 327490 is compressing…
Smaller but worth noting: PR 327486 fixed an issue where automation result buttons could misinterpret…
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