VS Code: Chat Gets a Major Polish Pass
Today brought 13 merged PRs focused heavily on chat improvements, with standout work from Rob Lourens on markdown table scrolling and Don Jayamanne adding Copilot user agent support. The team also cleaned house by removing deprecated settings and enhanced the Git extension with new copy commands for repository information.
Duration: PT3M52S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-03-02T11:18:38Z
- Audio duration: PT3M52S
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Hey there, amazing developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a fantastic Sunday roundup for you today, March 2nd, 2026. Grab your favorite beverage because we're diving into some really exciting improvements that just landed in VS Code.
So, thirteen pull requests merged today, and I'm genuinely excited about the story they tell. This feels like one of those days where the team said "let's make chat absolutely shine" - and they delivered in spades.
Let's start with the star of the show - Rob Lourens just solved a problem that's been bugging users for ages. You know those markdown tables in chat that would get all squished and impossible to read? The ones where "001" would get compressed to a single character? Well, Rob wrapped those tables in VS Code's custom…
Don Jayamanne was equally busy today, landing support for Copilot user agents and related functionality. This is laying important groundwork for how chat integrates with different AI services. Don also squeezed in a nice little fix for chat mode resolution - sometimes it's those one-line changes that make everything…
Speaking of cleanup, Rob also tackled some…
The Git…
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