Microsoft's latest VS Code update adds provider switching and a GitHub-free entry path specifically for Claude sessions.

Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat ...

Microsoft is bringing five more Claude-native capabilities to Azure-hosted deployments, extending a pattern of accommodating Anthropic's models, APIs and agent tooling across Microsoft and GitHub ...

VS Code model picker now allows users to switch between Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns reconfiguring the agent host. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its ...

Build an AI-powered E-E-A-T auditor that crawls websites, applies Google's quality guidance and generates polished reports in ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...

Visual Studio Code 1.130 brings some agent host rearchitecturing and an option to reduce approval interruptions during large agent tasks. Another week has passed us by which means it is time for ...