VS Code: Sessions Workflow Gets a Major Overhaul
The bulk of today's activity converges on the Sessions and Agent Host system, with more than a dozen pull requests hardening workspace selection, Codex and Copilot harness behavior, and post-merge cleanup — signaling Sessions is moving from experimental to production-hardening phase.
Duration: PT2M37S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-09-10T13:08:01Z
- Audio duration: PT2M37S
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Good morning. It's September 10th, and today's commits tell one clear story: Sessions is being hardened for real-world use.
The biggest cluster is workspace and repository selection. Megan Rogge shipped three connected pull requests — 335301, 335358, and 335325 — that consolidate how you pick a repository, deduplicate GitHub entries already represented locally, and offer Cloud harnesses for folders with GitHub remotes. This is the…
Second theme: Agent Host reliability and telemetry. Dileep Yavanmandha's session-specific sandbox settings, PR 335364, let you scope Copilot's sandbox behavior per session without touching global config. Alongside that, Vijay Upadya's token-usage telemetry work, PR 335379, and Andrew Munger's turn-correlation…
Third theme: session lifecycle polish. Benjamin Simmonds landed a trio of related changes — the merged-PR archive nudge refinement in 335360, cleanup settings in 335373, and now artifact removal for pull requests in 335424 — rounding out how sessions get archived, cleaned up, and detached from their PRs without…
Worth flagging: hawkticehurst's PR 335376 rolled back a customization entrypoint relocation after it caused a performance regression in the…
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