VS Code April Updates Add AI Agent Terminal Control, Copilot Workflow Improvements

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Visual Studio Code's April 2026 updates focus on boosting AI agent capabilities with enhanced terminal control APIs that let agents read, write, and manage terminal sessions programmatically. The updates also improve Copilot workflow with better context awareness across open files and integrated agent-friendly debugging interfaces. For developers building coding agents on VS Code extensions, the terminal control improvements lower the barrier to building agents that can execute, monitor, and iterate on code within the editor environment.