InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code update shines on coding agents

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Visual Studio Code has new experimental themes and more AI coding features

The January 2026 update has arrived.
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code adds support for agent skills

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks. Visual Studio Code 1.108, the latest ...
The Hacker News

Malicious VS Code AI Extensions with 1.5 Million Installs Steal Developer Source Code

Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.109 Deemed a Multi-Agent Development Platform

The January 2026 release of Visual Studio Code expands AI-assisted development with structured planning agents, parallel subagents, and unified orchestration across local and cloud environments.
Visual Studio Magazine

Beyond the Magic Word: Testing VS Code 1.109's New Agentic AI Workspace Priming

The January 2026 update to VS Code (v1.109) transforms the editor into a multi-agent orchestration hub, allowing developers to automate complex, rule-based editorial workflows with proactive context ...
XDA Developers on MSN

4 VS Code forks built for specific tasks

The classic VS Code is great and all, but these specialized forks are better for certain programming tasks ...
NPR

Studio 2

Studio 2 Extra: behind the scenes of food influencing Jacob Fink, better known as @jacobdoesphilly, breaks down what exactly goes into food review content creation.