VS Code: Weekly Recap - Agent Sessions Get a Foundation Rebuild
This week's work centered on rebuilding how agent automations and sessions store configuration, alongside a cluster of fixes to session workspace handling, chat context, and startup performance. Fifty pull requests and thirty additional commits touched the Agents Window, automations architecture, and MCP gallery security.
Duration: PT3M46S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-09-07T09:19:53Z
- Audio duration: PT3M46S
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This is your VS Code Weekly Recap for August thirty-first through September seventh. Fifty pull request activity items and thirty additional commits this week.
The dominant story is a structural overhaul of automations and agent sessions. Pull requests 334521 and 334836, from Ulugbek Abdullaena, replace the old flattened configuration format for automations with a provider-owned session template model. That fixes a real bug: mode and approval settings were getting…
The second theme is session workspace and picker consolidation. Meganrogge landed a redesigned unified workspace picker in 334591, added a no-workspace option in 334356, and relocated the feature flag into the Sessions area in 334554. Sandy081's 334487 folded remote workspace selection into that same consolidated…
Third, chat interface polish. Meganrogge restored GitHub issue and pull request context attachments in 334544 and fixed repository selection logic in 334594. Lramos15 cleaned up the model picker across two pull requests, 334674 and 334522. Justschen fixed picker focus and keyboard navigation in 334416.…
Fourth, security and infrastructure hardening. Dmitrivmus's 334761 locked down MCP gallery server fetches to…
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