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Public story · 2026-03-22 · source-backed
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
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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...
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...
Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.110 with agent plugins (bundled skills + MCP servers + hooks), native browser interaction for UI validation, persistent session memory across workflows, /fork for parallel conversation branching, and a new Agent Debug panel showing system prompts, t...
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...
Shipped August 12 on the Agent Host Protocol: the same agent session attaches from multiple VS Code windows, and the model picker exposes both Anthropic and Copilot options, switchable between turns and billed to the respective service. An experimental chat.agentHost.allowSign...
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