Agent Host: Your Sessions, Anywhere You Go

James Montemagno introduces Agent Host in Visual Studio Code, a feature designed to decouple agent sessions from a single VS Code window or machine so they can persist and be reused across a developer’s setup.

Overview

The video explains how Agent Host enables agent sessions to:

• Persist across projects and clients, rather than being tied to one VS Code window
• Run simultaneously from multiple clients (VS Code, the Agents window, and the web)
• Sync across a development environment, including connecting from multiple machines

Chapters

• 00:00 Introducing VS Code Agent Host
• 00:33 Session Persistence Across Clients
• 02:07 Remote Web Access to Sessions
• 02:59 Multi-Machine Agent Connectivity

Links

• Agent Host in VS Code docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/concepts/agent-host
• Agent Host Protocol: https://microsoft.github.io/agent-host-protocol/
• File an issue (VS Code): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues