VS Code: Chat Hooks Revolution & Editor Performance Wins
A massive 20 pull requests merged with 30 additional commits showing major progress on VS Code's chat system architecture. The team delivered significant improvements to chat hooks, extension APIs, and editor performance, with notable contributions from the chat and editor core teams tackling complex event handling and tool integration challenges.
Duration: PT4M7S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-02-05T11:20:39Z
- Audio duration: PT4M7S
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 unpack together!
Grab your favorite morning beverage because February 5th, 2026 brought us some absolutely fantastic updates. We're talking about 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits - the VS Code team has been absolutely on fire!
Let's dive right into the biggest story of the day: the chat hooks revolution that's been brewing. Rob Lourens has been leading an incredible refactoring effort to make VS Code's chat system more robust and extensible. We saw not one, but multiple PRs focused on reorganizing and clarifying how chat hooks work. The…
What's really exciting here is seeing how they're building the infrastructure for extensions to deeply integrate with VS Code's chat features. Don Jayamanne contributed some fantastic work on serialized tool call results, bringing more consistency to how tools display their input and output - similar to what we see…
But the chat improvements didn't stop there! We had fixes for web compatibility, updates to tool invocation handling, and even improvements to the chat editor opening experience.…
Now,…
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