VS Code: Multi-Folder Agent Chats and External Sessions
Agent Host work dominates, with chats in one session now scoped to their own folders for pull requests and Agent Merge, and sessions started outside VS Code now surfaced as adoptable External sessions. Hardening for SSH and protocol actions plus key reliability fixes round out the day.
Duration: PT2M42S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-09-24T13:06:13Z
- Audio duration: PT2M42S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's September 24th, 2026, and here's your VS Code developer briefing.
The big signal is a completed shift in the Agents Window: one session can now run multiple chats in different folders, and work started outside VS Code is treated as first-class external sessions.
First, folder-scoped chats are now real. In pull request 337544, session creation can start a chat in its own folder instead of forcing it to share the session workspace. Pull request 337499 moves pull request tracking from once per session to once per folder, and pull request 337594 runs Agent Merge separately for…
Second, external work is visible and adoptable. Pull request 337558 stops dropping eligible Copilot command-line and app sessions that lack repository metadata, while 337560 adds a dedicated External section with import and mark-as-done actions. Complementing that, 337674 marks cloud sessions started on dot-com,…
Finally, hardening and reliability. Pull request 337516 tightens SSH host-key checks to fail closed, and 337515 blocks clients from dispatching server-only actions. Smaller fixes correct nested subagent allow-list checks in 337611 and let failed custom editor documents reopen without a…
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