Highlight, Quote, and Follow Up—All in VS Code

Name: Highlight, Quote, and Follow Up—All in VS Code
Uploaded: 2026-10-15T13:45:41+00:00
Description: Visual Studio Code shows how to keep momentum while working with agents by highlighting text to ask follow-up questions in a side chat with its own context,...

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Visual Studio Code demonstrates a quick workflow for asking better follow-up questions while working with agents inside VS Code.

Overview

The video shows two ways to reuse text context without manual copy/paste:

Highlight text and ask a follow-up in a side chat
- Use a side chat that keeps its own context, so you can drill into a specific snippet without derailing your main conversation.
Quote highlighted text into the current chat
- Insert the selection as a quote in your existing chat to get an immediate response that references the quoted content.

Link

VS Code docs: Agents window: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/run/agents-window