VS Code: Weekly Recap - Agents Window Defaults, Minimap Fixes, and Router Tuning
This week brought 30 pull request items and 30 commits centered on stabilizing the Agents window with new defaults for layout, activity bar, and Done state. Minimap rendering fixes and model router refinements plus pnpm build work rounded out a consolidation week.
Duration: PT3M38S
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- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-11-09T09:15:13Z
- Audio duration: PT3M38S
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Hello and welcome to your VS Code weekly recap for November 2nd through 9th.
This week: 30 pull request activity items, 30 additional commits this week.
The lead pattern is consolidation. The Agents window is shifting from new layout ideas to stable defaults, while the editor and model routing get reliability and performance tuning.
First, Agents window layout and session management. Several changes flip previous experiments on by default. PR 346837 shows the Session Activity Bar by default in Stable, and PR 346828 puts its fixed right-edge column behind a new setting, on in Insiders and off in Stable. PR 346836 keeps layout state per chat by…
Second, minimap and overview ruler polish. PR 346787 stops the minimap slider from jumping when tall view zones scroll by. PR 346649 repaints only changed rows of the minimap decorations layer instead of the full canvas, cutting repaint work on keystrokes and selection changes. PR 346862 keeps the slider visible…
Third, model routing and engineering hygiene. PRs 346798, 346799 and 346808 refine how the router picks models, sending first turns as text, preferring the fallback model first, switching on follow-ups that fit a different route, and…
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