VS Code: Per-Chat Config and Central Session State
Agent Host landed per-chat configuration and made its central database authoritative for session state, while the Agents window gained performance and polish fixes. Enterprise policy was tightened around marketplaces and sandboxing.
Duration: PT2M31S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-10-15T13:16:41Z
- Audio duration: PT2M31S
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Good morning, it's October 15th, 2026 — this is your VS Code developer briefing.
The lead signal: Agent Host sessions are now built to move. Central storage is authoritative, and individual chats can carry their own settings.
First theme is Move Chats, blocks 3a and 3b. PR 341626 makes the agent host database authoritative for session state, with per-session values, folder git state, drafts and checkpoints projected centrally and mirrored back to the old session format for older builds. PR 341714 builds on that with per-chat…
Second theme is Agents window responsiveness and polish. PR 341647 tackles opening and reloading a very large chat with over a thousand requests that was slow to scroll and render. Related work bounds worktree disk measurement in PR 341573, which had been issuing thousands of metadata requests at once, and improves…
Third is policy and presentation. PR 341663 removes the user-facing strict marketplaces setting and enforces it only from managed settings, while PR 341671 allows sandbox changes when managed policy permits bypass. The model picker now shows provider brand icons in PR 341578, and Thinking Level is renamed to Effort…
What's next: watch open PR 341721…
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