This plan captures our work in August 2025. This is a 5-week iteration. We will ship in early September.

Endgame

• September 1, 2025: Endgame begins
• September 5, 2025: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference
🔵	more investigation required to remove uncertainty
⚫	under discussion within the team
⬛	a large work item, larger than one iteration

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @anthonykim1 team

UX

• None.

Workbench

• Allow extensions to contribute views to the secondary side bar vscode#151681 @benibenj

Getting started

• None.

Code Editor

• Ship Monaco Editor with only ESM support vscode#262871 @hediet
• 🏃 Allow configuring font family, font size and line height via syntactic tokens vscode#263545 @aiday-mar

Notebook Editor / Jupyter Notebooks

• Improve next edit suggestions for notebooks vscode#255704 @DonJayamanne @hediet

Source Control

• 🏃 Git: Copilot powered conflict resolutions vscode#255801 @lszomoru
• Support previewing and merging changes from worktrees into current workspace vscode#260708 @nguyenchristy

Settings

• 🏃 Re-evaluate settings and defaults throughout VS Code vscode#260404 @cwebster-99

Extensions

• None.

Languages

TypeScript and JavaScript

• None.

Python

• 🏃 Roll out Python Environments Extension as bundled by default with the Python Extension vscode-python-environments#190 @eleanorjboyd @cwebster-99
• 🏃 Build "Diagnose with AI" flow for Python Environment Extension vscode-python-environments#592 @eleanorjboyd
• Add pipenv support to Python Environments Extension vscode-python-environments#686 @eleanorjboyd

Terminal

• ⬛ 🏃 Ship shell-agnostic terminal intellisense by default in stable vscode#226562 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• Improve discoverability and UX of terminal windows vscode#260362 @Tyriar
• Inject Python activate hooks into shell integration scripts vscode#259637 @anthonykim1
• 🏃 Take ownership of terminal-links, terminal-find, terminal-layout, terminal-sticky-scroll, terminal-local-echo, terminal-external vscode#261683 @anthonykim1
• Enable terminal sticky scroll by default in stable vscode#209003 @anthonykim1

Tasks

• None.

API

• API proposals: query @mjbvz @alexr00
• API finalization: query @mjbvz @alexr00
• BYOK API vscode#250007 @lramos15
• Model providers should be community driven vscode#249605 @isidorn

Extension Contributions

GitHub Pull Requests

• Guide users to sign in better vscode-pull-request-github#7614 @alexr00
• Improve the pull request card in Chat View vscode#258595 @alexr00
• Compact view for narrow window vscode-pull-request-github#7383 @alexr00
• Reload window should persist the PR view vscode-pull-request-github#7378 @alexr00
• Reference PR as context in Chat vscode-pull-request-github#7332 @alexr00

AI

MCP

• 🏃 Polish MCP client experience, see query @sandy081

Prompt, Instruction and Mode Files

• 🏃 Support completions for tools in text vscode#262159 @aeschli
• Improve ghost text completions in front matter vscode#262160 @aeschli
• 🏃 Identify and close gaps needed to implement multi-step modes such as TDD vscode#261542 @digitarald @aeschli @roblourens
• 💪 Explore expressing MCP or extension dependencies within prompt and mode files vscode#262161 @aeschli
• 💪 Improve /save for reusable prompts vscode#262163 @aeschli

Chat

• 🏃 Support for CoT tokens vscode#257104 @justschen @karthiknadig @jo-oikawa
• Support Responses API vscode#262760 @roblourens @connor4312 @lramos15
• 🏃 Handle temporary model issues based on server response vscode#259713 @lramos15
• Explore Auto mode vscode#252795 @lramos15 @isidorn
• 🏃 Review and address Chat UX feedback from social channels vscode#26703 @justschen @jo-oikawa @bpasero @isidorn
• Explore showing most recent chat history entries in empty chat vscode#251187 @eli-w-king @justschen
• 🏃 Polish Todo list UI vscode#253518 @bhavyaus @digitarald
• Support math (Katex) syntax rendering in Chat vscode#255243 @mjbvz
• 🏃 Explore supporting Mermaid diagram rendering in Chat vscode-copilot-release#7440 @mjbvz
• Explore transparency around token use vscode#249983 @isidorn

Tools and tools management

• 🏃 Improve pre-selection of tools vscode#263272 @connor4312 @yufanhuang-ms
• Provide multi-edit tool for Claude models vscode#263274 @connor4312
• Investigate the performance of a TodoWrite tool vscode#260687 @bhavyaus @digitarald
• Improve file editing tool use for notebook (gpt/claude/gemini) vscode#260233 @DonJayamanne @amunger
• 🏃 💪 Improve editing model to correctly reflect file renames vscode#263275 @connor4312

Terminal/task tools

• 🏃 Terminal tool UX refresh vscode#257468 @Tyriar @jo-oikawa
• Terminal auto approve
  • Improve auto approve defaults vscode#259668 @Tyriar
  • UI entry point to auto-approve future commands vscode#253268 @Tyriar
  • Tell the user why or why not something was auto approved vscode#256793 @Tyriar
  • Policy controls vscode#255789 @Tyriar
• 💪 Re-routing of calls to terminal tool to appropriate native tools vscode#253884 @Tyriar
• Auto handling and announcing Y/N terminal confirmations vscode#258252 @meganrogge
• Allow agent to run compound tasks vscode#258241 @meganrogge

NES / Completions

• Experiment: invoke NES with a larger edit window after it's just been accepted vscode#261618 @ulugbekna
• Experiment: do not delay cached NES when the user edited in a way which agrees or accepted parts of the suggestion vscode#263269 @ulugbekna
• 🏃 Create an npm package which contains NES as a library vscode-copilot-chat#216 @chrmarti
• Experiment: show both Copilot and IntelliSense suggestions when they differ vscode#261620 @hediet

Integrations

• 💪 Improve the integration with the GH Coding Agent (aka Padawan)
  • 💪 Support generating copilot-setup-steps.yml pvscode#260225 @osortega
• 🏃 Chat session provider api vscode#256396 @mjbvz
• Chat Editor
  • Support creating a new chat session/editor for Coding Agent vscode#260221 @joshspicer
  • Support checkout/apply-changes directly from the chat view vscode#260227 @joshspicer
  • Hot reload support for chat sessions vscode#259967 @joshspicer
• Chat Sessions View
  • Improve Chat Sessions View visual presentation vscode#260167 @osortega @jo-oikawa
  • Explore improvements to Chat Sessions View interactions (open chats in new window, f2 rename chat) vscode#260170 @osortega
  • Progress/Status tracking for Chat Sessions vscode#260206 @osortega @jo-oikawa
• 🏃 Explore supporting a selection of CLI agents vscode#262756 @roblourens

Authentication

• Support MFA requirements for upcoming changes to Azure RM write actions vscode#260156 @TylerLeonhardt
• Adopt new version of msal-node-extensions with macOS and Windows ARM broker support vscode#260158 @TylerLeonhardt

Engineering

• Explore a better Windows update flow vscode#249239 @deepak1556
• Issue Reporter: Add Create/Preview option + repo routing choices vscode#260182 @Yoyokrazy
• 🏃 Investigate leveraging Playwright MCP with vscode codebase vscode#262164 @TylerLeonhardt
• Allow to disable all Code Review features using a group policy vscode#261653 @chrmarti

Electron

• None.

Documentation

• 💪 🏃 Doc updates for Python Environments extension vscode-docs#8603 @cwebster-99
• Add security article to agent mode docs vscode-docs#8571 @ntrogh
• Update AI tutorials to showcase agent mode scenario vscode-docs#8741 @ntrogh
• Split Copilot customization article vscode-docs#8742 @ntrogh
• 💪 🏃 Create agent mode cookbook vscode-docs#8743 @ntrogh @digitarald
• Add docs for auto mode language model vscode-docs#8744 @ntrogh @isidorn

Website

• 💪 Improve width of ToC, and overall the width of a docs page that's available vscode-docs#8485 @hawkticehurst
• Include telemetry for ToC click behavior vscode-docs#8489 @hawkticehurst

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Deferred

• Allow using LSP in the Monaco Editor vscode#262872 @hediet
• Inline Chat V2 for notebooks improvement vscode#259903 @amunger
• Explore moving notebook tools into core vscode#260234 @DonJayamanne @amunger
• Improve how the terminal tool deals with multiple terminals vscode#253263 @Tyriar
• Explore Optimistic Next Edit Suggestions vscode-copilot-chat#222 @chrmarti
• Support to approve agent mode confirmations from desktop notifications vscode#251621 @bpasero
• Explore layouts for Chat session + Multi File Diff vscode#260226 @joshspicer
• Explore Builtin create pull request tool / integration in Copilot Chat vscode#255387 @alexr00
• Improve Delegate to Coding Agent button workflow vscode#260228 @joshspicer @jo-oikawa
• ✋ 💪 Support MCP registries @connor4312
• ✋ Remove all hard-coded styles with variables vscode#248725 @mrleemurray
• Improve VS Code Figma design resources vscode#249227 @kkbrooks
• Monitor the current TypeScript context provider experiment vscode#255373 @dbaeumer
• Improve rendering of prompt file usage in Chat vscode#253014 @aeschli @justschen
• Support Copilot Chat in web vscode#245860 @bpasero
• 💪 Explore anchored quick widget for mouse interactions to attach context vscode#238095 @TylerLeonhardt
• Suggest to user to move app to /Applications on startup vscode#213909 @deepak1556
• 💪 Opt-in to LLM-based approval vscode#253267 @Tyriar
• 💪 Explore offering inline completions in the chat input box vscode#255818 @aiday-mar
• 💪 Explore rendering unaccepted files in SCM vscode#254456 @aiday-mar @lszomoru
• STest cache explorer vscode#255803 @joaomoreno