This Thursday: join us for "Building the future of AI coding with MCP in VS Code and Claude", a live webinar that dives deep into the MCP ecosystem, how to build MCP servers, and live demos of agent mode powered by Claude. 🗓️ July 24 🕙 10:00 AM PST Register now:

🚀 v1.102 of @code is here! Check out what’s new: - MCP is GA with GitHub policy support - GitHub Copilot Chat is open source - Use custom modes for tailored chat - Background task management with Copilot coding agent …and so much more: 🧶 Here are some of the highlights…

Join us on the VS Code livestream in 10 minutes! @burkeholland will be joined by Rob Lourens to talk about the first milestone we just reached to make VS Code the open source AI editor.

VS Code: the open source AI editor. Starting today.

Join us in building the future of AI-assisted developer tools with VS Code: DMs are open for any questions you may have!

🌐 Imagine giving your AI agent the power to browse the web. In this demo, April connects an MCP server—Playwright—to an AI agent using the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. 🔌 Whether it’s navigating web pages or extracting content, your agent just got a serious upgrade! 🎥 Watch here:

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🎉 Sarah Kaiser and @chris_noring are celebrating the 50 million devs using #VSCode and #VisualStudio by walking us through their favorite VS Code Best Kept Secrets: Profiles and MCP support. 🎈 Join the celebration by replying with YOUR favorite VS Code Best Kept Secret. ...and be sure to use #VS50M and #sweepstakes for a chance to win a limited-edition T-shirt. 👕 (18+. Ends 7/6/25. See the blog for rules:

We believe the future is agentic. Agent mode is now the default chat mode in @code for all paid users.

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