VS Code: Chat & Inline Features Polish Pass
The VS Code team merged 20 pull requests focusing heavily on chat sessions and inline chat improvements. Major highlights include Copilot-contributed garbage collection for Git askpass directories, comprehensive fixes for inline chat affordances, and Benjamin Pasero's work on agent sessions functionality. The team also shipped network retry logic and enhanced tool picker telemetry.
Duration: PT3M58S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-01-29T11:18:50Z
- Audio duration: PT3M58S
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Hey there, fellow developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm so excited to chat with you today because we've got some really thoughtful improvements landing in the codebase that show the team is really listening to how we use these features day-to-day.
So we had 20 pull requests merge yesterday, and honestly, it feels like the team took a step back and said "let's make the chat and inline features just work better." And that's exactly the kind of polish that makes our daily coding experience so much smoother.
Let me start with something that caught my eye - Copilot actually contributed a really smart garbage collection system for Git askpass directories. You know how VS Code creates these temporary directories for handling Git authentication? Well, they were just accumulating over time as VS Code updated or scripts…
Benjamin Pasero was absolutely on fire yesterday with agent sessions work. He shipped a "Mark All Read" action for chat sessions, fixed layout issues when opening editors in agent session windows, and made several tweaks to how read and unread tracking works. It's clear the team is really refining this experience…
The inline chat improvements…
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