VS Code: Agent Host Debug Arsenal & Mobile UX Polish
VS Code shipped 20 powerful pull requests focused on debugging infrastructure and user experience refinements. The highlights include comprehensive debug log collection tools for agent host sessions, improved mobile interface flows, and significant stability fixes for chat spinners and background processing. Contributors like roblourens, sandy081, and osortega led major improvements to developer tooling and cross-platform usability.
Duration: PT4M1S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-05-06T10:04:29Z
- Audio duration: PT4M1S
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Hey there, wonderful developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a fantastic day of development to dig into together. May 6th, 2026 was absolutely buzzing with activity - we're talking 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits. The team was clearly…
Let me start with what I think is the coolest addition today. Rob Lourens has been absolutely crushing it with debugging infrastructure. He shipped not one, but two incredible debugging tools that are going to make your life so much easier when working with agent host sessions.
First up, there's a new command called "Open Copilot CLI State File" that lets you peek directly into the events.jsonl file for your active session. Whether you're working locally or remotely, this command knows exactly where to find your session data. But here's where it gets really exciting - Rob also added a…
Speaking of Rob's contributions, he tackled a really frustrating bug where completed agent sessions would show a perpetual spinner in the Sessions list. You know that feeling when something's clearly done but the UI doesn't get the memo? That's exactly what was happening here. It turned…
Now,…
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