VS Code: Chat Commands Get Smarter & Terminal Magic
A significant day for VS Code with 10 merged pull requests and 16 commits focusing heavily on chat functionality improvements and terminal enhancements. Tyler Leonhardt led the charge with major chat slash command updates for GitHub Copilot integration, while Alexandru Dima delivered substantial terminal output capture fixes and sandbox improvements.
Duration: PT4M5S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-03-23T10:10:54Z
- Audio duration: PT4M5S
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Hey there, developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a packed show for you today. March 23rd brought us some seriously impressive updates that are going to make your coding life so much smoother.
Let's dive right into the big story of the day - chat commands just got a whole lot smarter! Tyler Leonhardt dropped a fantastic PR that's all about making slash commands work better across different AI providers. You know those handy commands like `/clear`, `/fork`, and `/debug`? Well, they were being a bit picky…
The coolest part? Claude users are now getting access to more slash commands, including `/clear`, `/fork`, `/debug`, and `/models`. It's one of those changes that seems simple on the surface but required some really thoughtful architecture work underneath.
Speaking of thoughtful work, we had some fantastic terminal improvements land today. Alexandru Dima has been on an absolute roll with terminal enhancements. One of the standout fixes tackles something that's been bugging developers - when you run commands through chat tools, sometimes the command echo and shell…
But that's not all from the terminal front! Anthony Kim…
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