VS Code: Chat Gets Supercharged
VS Code's latest update brings major chat enhancements with a stunning new image carousel feature, expanded plugin support including OpenPlugin format, and monorepo-friendly customizations. Twenty pull requests merged with significant contributions from rebornix, connor4312, and aeschli, plus webpack finally getting the boot (again!).
Duration: PT3M59S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-03-12T10:30:33Z
- Audio duration: PT3M59S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, fellow developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow - do we have an exciting day to talk about! March 12th, 2026 was absolutely packed with innovation, and I can barely contain my enthusiasm about what the team shipped.
Let's dive right into the headline feature that's got me genuinely excited - rebornix just delivered something spectacular with the new image carousel! This isn't just a simple image viewer, folks. We're talking about a full modal editor pane that displays images from MCP tool results in a beautiful carousel view…
But that's not all on the chat front! Connor Peet has been absolutely crushing it with plugin support. Two massive pull requests landed that completely transform how we work with plugins. First, VS Code now supports the OpenPlugin format - basically expanding the ecosystem to work with existing plugin standards.…
Martin Aeschlimann tackled something that's been a real pain point for teams working with monorepos. You know how frustrating it was when you'd open a subfolder in VS Code and lose access to your chat customizations because they were defined at the parent repository level? Well, that's…
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