VS Code Learn: Agent-First Development

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza walks through how to work effectively with AI agents in Visual Studio Code, covering agent workflows, governance, debugging, execution environments, and hands-on application development.

Overview

The video demonstrates an “agent-first development” approach in VS Code, including how to start agent sessions, customize the editor for agent workflows, review and control agent functions, understand where agent sessions run, and use debugging tooling (debug logs and the chat debug view) while building an application using agent mode.

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:50 Customization in VS Code
• 01:50 Demo - 5 key concepts in agent-first development
• 09:53 Kicking off your first agent session
• 10:23 Demo
• 16:42 Reviewing and controlling agent functions
• 17:04 Demo
• 24:35 Agent sessions and where they run
• 24:55 Demo
• 32:15 Agent Debug Logs and Chat Debug View
• 32:44 Demo
• 40:52 Build your first app with agent mode
• 41:09 Demo
• 48:10 Recap

Links

• VS Code Learn: https://aka.ms/vscode/learn
• Presenter: Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza: https://x.com/madebygps
• VS Code on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode