VS Code Release Highlights - April 2026

Reynald Adolphe walks through the April 2026 Visual Studio Code release highlights, focusing on the new Agents Window, tools for evaluating chat customizations, and updates to GitHub Copilot for CLI including “thinking effort” and remote control features.

Overview

This release-highlights video covers a set of editor and AI-assisted workflow updates shipped in the April 2026 VS Code release.

VS Code Agents Window

• Introduces the Agents Window experience in VS Code.
• Link: https://aka.ms/agent-window

Chat customizations evaluation tooling

• Highlights the Chat Customizations Evaluations extension for evaluating chat customizations.

GitHub Copilot for CLI updates

• Covers Thinking Effort in Copilot for CLI.
• Covers Remote Control for Copilot CLI.

Learning resources

• Points to new VS Code Learn content.
• Link: https://aka.ms/VSCode/Learn

Links

• Release notes: https://aka.ms/vscode/release
• Agents Window: https://aka.ms/agent-window
• VS Code Learn: https://aka.ms/VSCode/Learn