Designing AI Coding Tools: Inside Visual Studio & VS Code Agents
Microsoft is building AI agents into Visual Studio and VS Code, including skill creation and a multi-harness agents window.
“I'm using the agent's window to build the agent's window.”
A Microsoft principal designer demonstrates new AI agent capabilities in Visual Studio and VS Code, including agent-assisted skill creation and a multi-harness 'agents window' that supports Copilot CLI and Claude. It signals Microsoft's push to embed agentic, multi-model coding workflows directly into mainstream IDEs, with designers using the tools to build the tools themselves.