VS Code 1.130 promotes the Agents window to a first-class surface for parallel agent sessions

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Paul Krill at InfoWorld reports the Visual Studio Code 1.130 release centers on the Agents window — a dedicated surface for managing multiple concurrent agent sessions rather than a chat sidebar bolted onto the editor. This continues the structural shift visible in JetBrains Air and ReSharper 2026.2 over the past week: IDE vendors are converging on multi-session agent management as the primary new UI primitive. For builders, it means the editor is becoming an orchestration console, and single-threaded chat panels are being deprecated in practice.