VS Code: Chat Gets Smarter - Remote Agents, Image Carousels, and Plugin Power-Ups
The VS Code team shipped 16 merged PRs focused heavily on enhancing the chat and AI experience. Major highlights include remote agent host connectivity, a completely revamped image carousel with chat integration, improved plugin system with rules support, and better testing tools coverage representation.
Duration: PT3M45S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-03-13T10:32:52Z
- Audio duration: PT3M45S
Transcript excerpt
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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 an exciting episode for you today. March 13th brought us some absolutely fantastic updates, and I'm practically bouncing in my chair to share them with you.
So grab your favorite coding beverage, because we're diving into 16 merged pull requests that are going to make your development life so much better. And honestly, the theme that keeps jumping out at me is how much smarter and more connected everything is becoming.
Let's start with the big story - Rob Lourens just shipped something really cool. They've added the ability to connect to remote agent hosts via a new setting called chat.remoteAgentHosts. This is huge for teams working in distributed environments. Imagine being able to seamlessly connect your chat experience to…
But wait, it gets even better! Rebornix has been absolutely crushing it with the image carousel improvements. They've enhanced it with section support and chat integration, which means when you're working with images in your chat conversations, the experience is going to be so much smoother. They've added proper…
Now here's something that…
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