VS Code: Chat Gets Claude Rules and Context Smarts
VS Code added major chat improvements with Claude rules support, contextual tips that adapt to user behavior, and a significant architectural shift to push-based session models. With 20 merged PRs including accessibility fixes and UX enhancements, the team delivered both user-facing features and important foundation work for the future.
Duration: PT4M13S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-02-10T11:13:54Z
- Audio duration: PT4M13S
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Hey there, VS Code community! Welcome back to another episode where we dive into the latest and greatest happening in everyone's favorite editor. I'm your host, and wow - do we have an exciting episode for you today. The team has been absolutely crushing it with some major chat improvements that are going to make…
Let's jump right into the big story of the day - and that's all about making chat smarter and more intuitive. The star of today's show has to be the Claude rules support that Martin Aeschlimann shipped. This is huge! With over 500 lines of new code across 18 files, we now have proper support for Claude rules in the…
But the chat improvements don't stop there. Megan Rogge delivered something I'm personally excited about - contextual tips. These aren't just any tips - they're smart tips that actually pay attention to how you're using VS Code. If you've already mastered agent mode or instruction files, the tips won't keep nagging…
And speaking of Megan's great work, she also added context menus to those chat tips. Now you can right-click and either dismiss individual tips or turn them off entirely. Sometimes it's the little quality-of-life improvements that make the biggest…
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