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• 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 ...

• Use custom instructions in VS Code

  Learn how to create custom instructions for GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code to ensure AI responses match your coding practices, project requirements, and development standards.

• 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 ...

• Supporting Remote Development and GitHub Codespaces

  Supporting Remote Development and GitHub Codespaces Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to transparently interact with source code and runtime environments sitting on other machines (whether virtual or physical). GitHub Codespaces is a service that expands these capabilities with managed cloud-hosted environments that are accessible from both VS Code and a browser-based editor. To ...

• 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. Agent loop When you give an agent a task, it ...

• Documentation for Visual Studio Code

  Your home for multi-agent development. Explore AI agents, coding tools, extensions, and everything you need to build faster with Visual Studio Code.

• Migrating VS Code to Process Sandboxing

  Migrating VS Code to Process Sandboxing A win-win for security and the VS Code architecture November 28, 2022 by Benjamin Pasero, @BenjaminPasero Enabling the sandbox in Electron renderer processes is a critical requirement for secure and reliable Electron applications such as Visual Studio Code.

• Customization - Visual Studio Code

  Customization AI models have broad general knowledge but don't know your codebase or team practices. Think of the AI as a skilled new team member: it writes great code, but doesn't know your conventions, architecture decisions, or preferred libraries. Customization is how you share that context, so responses match your coding standards, project structure, and workflows. This article explains ...

• The Visual Studio Code Server

  You can learn more about it, including the architecture, other commands, implementation details, and scenarios, in its documentation and intro video. If you have any issues or feedback, please file an issue in the VS Code Remote Development GitHub repo, and you can Tweet us your thoughts @code.

• Debugger Extension | Visual Studio Code Extension API

  Debugger Extension Visual Studio Code's debugging architecture allows extension authors to easily integrate existing debuggers into VS Code, while having a common user interface with all of them. VS Code ships with one built-in debugger extension, the Node.js debugger extension, which is an excellent showcase for the many debugger features supported by VS Code: This screenshot shows the ...