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Get started with AI agents

Hand off tasks to autonomous AI agents that iterate until the job is done. Run them locally, in the background, or in the cloud, with your choice of AI provider. Track all sessions without leaving VS Code.

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What do you want to do?

Learn about the agent loop

Understand the core concepts of how AI agents plan, act, and iterate to complete tasks.

Test and debug with browser agents

Let AI agents use the integrated browser to validate and fix issues in your application.

Customize AI for your project

Configure custom instructions, prompt files, and MCP servers to tailor AI to your workflow.

Set up VS Code

Install VS Code on Windows, macOS, or Linux and get running.

Learn VS Code basics

Explore the editor, settings, extensions, and key features.

VS Code for enterprise

Learn how to configure VS Code for enterprise environments with policies, extension management, and AI customization options.

Latest

release

VS Code 1.121 release

Remote control your agent sessions, built-in Mermaid and HTML preview, and terminal optimizations.

documentation

Remote control Copilot CLI

Monitor and steer ongoing Copilot CLI sessions from github.com or GitHub Mobile.

blog

VS Code coding harness

Learn about the coding harness, model evaluations, and the agent processing workflow.