VS Code: Sessions Search Overhaul and Mobile Experiment
The Agents window got a major search upgrade and reliability fixes for terminals, remote prompts and model selection, while a new isolated mobile workbench stack landed as opt-in only. Enterprise proxy support and Linux file-watching fixes round out the weekend.
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: 2026-11-01T14:05:16Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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Good morning, it's Sunday, November 1st, 2026, and here's your VS Code daily briefing.
The through-line is maturity: the Sessions and Agent Host experience is getting search, terminal and reliability fixes, while an experimental mobile workbench is being built in isolation so it doesn't disturb desktop.
First, Sessions search got a real overhaul. PR 345215, now merged, replaces fuzzy letter matching with word-based search across titles, branches, pull requests, folders and hosts, and it auto-expands results with hints about what matched. For developers juggling many agent sessions, that means you can actually find…
That same push for parity shows up in agent terminals and chat correctness. PR 345387 titles agent host terminals like local terminals instead of a generic label. PR 345426 fixes remote-steered prompts from web and mobile so replies aren't dropped. And paired fixes in PRs 345373 and 345374 stop the model picker from…
Second, mobile. A three-part stack in PRs 345367, 345368 and 345369 adds opt-in presentation hooks, then an isolated experimental web workbench, then packaging as a separate web target. It's explicitly local-only and opt-in. If you work on layout or view…
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