VS Code: Copilot Enhancement and Agent Host Updates
The VS Code team merged 14 pull requests focused on Copilot improvements and Agent Host functionality, including live streaming for Task API sessions, shell completion notifications, and Git repository performance fixes.
Duration: PT1M49S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-05-30T10:01:10Z
- Audio duration: PT1M49S
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Good morning, this is your VS Code development update for Thursday, May 30th, 2026.
The team merged several significant Copilot enhancements today. Osvaldo Ortega merged live streaming support for Task API cloud agent sessions, adding incremental content updates that match existing behavior. Anthony Kim merged async shell completion notifications for Agent Host Copilot CLI, improving terminal…
Vikram Nitin addressed cache timeout issues during long tool calls by implementing keep-alive probes every four minutes, specifically for execution subagent calls. The same author also updated Execution Subagent settings to use Gemini-3-Flash as the default model, though Bhavyaus later disabled it by default pending…
Several bug fixes landed as well. Dmitriy Vasura fixed language model event recursion issues and throttled Git repository status calls to prevent extension host crashes in workspaces with many repositories. The fix caps initial status checks to prevent IPC timeout loops.
Additional improvements include enabling the rubber duck critic subagent for code review, caching malicious extension lists for faster startup, and various session management fixes for maximize state handling and…
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