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• What is a VS Code workspace?

  Learn about Visual Studio Code workspaces What is a VS Code workspace? A Visual Studio Code workspace is the collection of one or more folders that are opened in a VS Code window (instance). In most cases, you will have a single folder opened as the workspace. However, depending on your development workflow, you can include more than one folder, using an advanced configuration called Multi ...

• UX Guidelines | Visual Studio Code Extension API

  UX Guidelines These guidelines cover the best practices for creating extensions that seamlessly integrate with VS Code's native interface and patterns. In these guidelines, you can expect to find: An outline of VS Code's overall UI architecture and elements Recommendations and examples for UI contributed by an extension Links to relevant guides and samples Before diving into the details, it's ...

• Agents - Visual Studio Code

  Agents An agent is an AI system that autonomously plans and executes coding tasks. You give the agent a high-level goal, and it breaks the goal down into steps, executes those steps with tools, and self-corrects when it hits errors. This article explains the core architecture of agents: the agent loop, agent types, subagents, memory, and planning. For an overview of what you can do with agents ...

• Visual Studio Code Server

  Architecture We want to provide a unified VS Code experience no matter how you use the editor, whether it's local or remote, in the desktop or in the browser. Access to the VS Code Server is built in to the existing code CLI. The CLI establishes a tunnel between a VS Code client and your remote machine.

• Memory in VS Code agents

  Memory in VS Code agents Agents in Visual Studio Code use memory to retain context across conversations. Rather than starting from scratch each session, agents recall your preferences, apply lessons from previous tasks, and build up knowledge about your codebase over time. For background on how memory fits into the agent architecture, see Agents concepts. This article explains how to use the ...

• How AI works in VS Code

  Understand how AI works in VS Code, from inline suggestions to autonomous agents, and how language models, context, and tools fit together.

• Set up a context engineering flow in VS Code

  Set up a context engineering flow in VS Code This guide shows you how to set up a context engineering workflow in VS Code using custom instructions, custom agents, and prompt files. Context engineering is a systematic approach to providing AI agents with targeted project information to improve the quality and accuracy of generated code. By curating essential project context through custom ...

• How VS Code Builds with AI

  Learn how VS Code uses AI across its own development workflow with GitHub Copilot agent mode, automated testing, and AI-powered code review.

• VS Code Remote Development

  GitHub Codespaces GitHub Codespaces provides remote development environments that are managed for you. You can configure and create a development environment hosted in the cloud, which is spun up and available when you need it. Questions or feedback See Tips and Tricks or the FAQ. Search on Stack Overflow. Add a feature request or report a problem.

• Extension Host | Visual Studio Code Extension API

  The Visual Studio Code Extension Host is responsible for managing extensions and ensuring the stability and performance of Visual Studio Code.