VS Code: Sessions Revolution - Agent Hosts, Remote Connections, and Session Management Take Center Stage
The VS Code team delivered a massive update to their Sessions feature with 20 merged pull requests focusing heavily on agent host functionality, remote connections, and session management. Key improvements include automatic reconnection for remote agent hosts, session renaming capabilities, and better model picker functionality, with substantial contributions from roblourens, lszomoru, and the Copilot team.
Duration: PT4M8S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-03-31T10:03:37Z
- Audio duration: PT4M8S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, code crafters! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow - do we have an exciting episode for you today! March 31st brought us one of those days where you can really feel the momentum building around a major feature set.
We're looking at 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, and there's a clear theme here - Sessions are getting some serious love, particularly around agent hosts and remote connections. It's like watching a feature go from "cool prototype" to "production-ready powerhouse" right before our eyes.
Let's dive into the big story of the day - agent host sessions are getting a complete makeover. Rob Lourens led the charge with a massive pull request for renaming agent host sessions. Now, I know "renaming" might sound simple, but this was a 569-line addition across 24 files. When you're dealing with distributed…
But that's just the beginning of the agent host improvements. We also saw fixes for disappearing sessions in lists - you know that frustrating bug where you're working with a session and it just vanishes? That's been squashed. The model picker on new session pages is working properly now for remote agent…
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