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Public story · 2026-03-17 · source-backed
Three configurable autonomy levels: Default Approvals, Bypass Approvals, and Autopilot (Preview) where all tool calls auto-approve, errors auto-retry, and agent questions auto-answer so the agent never stalls. Agent-Scoped Hooks (preview) attach pre/post processing logic to a single session. This is the first release under VS Code's new weekly stable cadence, replacing monthly releases. Agent autonomy control is now a standard product pattern — both the dominant IDE and the dominant CLI shipped user-configurable autonomy tiers in the same week. Source
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Three permission tiers: Default Approvals, Bypass Approvals, and Autopilot (Preview) which auto-approves all tool calls, retries errors, and auto-responds to agent questions until task_complete. Agent-scoped hooks enable per-session pre/post processing. Source
Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
Three companies shipped standalone agent platforms in the same week, and none of them are IDE plugins. Google launched Antigravity 2.0 at I/O with a desktop app, a Go-based CLI, and an SDK for self-hosted agent deployments. No IDE. It's conversations, projects, and multi-agent...
The Amazon Q bug is one instance of a 2026 pattern: MCP configuration carried in repositories is now an RCE supply-chain vector, not just untrusted tool output. Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Claude Code, and Gemini-CLI are all vulnerable to MCP-based auto-launch attacks (Windsurf...
The release moves AI agents into a dedicated Agent Host process separate from the extension host, so sessions survive window closures and multiple windows can attach to one session. Microsoft is publishing the protocol openly, letting third-party harnesses including the Copilo...
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