Command GitHub's Coding Agent from VS Code

July 17, 2025 by Burke Holland, @burkeholland

Today, we’re excited to give you a first look at the Copilot Coding Agent in Visual Studio Code.

Instead of only having one synchronous agent in VS Code, you can now have multiple agents running at once working on your behalf. This is actually being a 10x developer. It's officially a thing. You get to hand off any work you need done to a squad of AI teammates.

To see this in action in your editor right now, install the GitHub Pull Requests extension and add the following VS Code setting:

"githubPullRequests.codingAgent.uiIntegration": true,

We are very excited to further deepen this integration with Coding Agent. And since we recently made the move to fully open source the AI features in VS Code, you can track our progress in our Coding Agent iteration plan. We're working on:

• PR performance and rendering
• Integrated chat view for Coding Agent sessions
• Bringing the Copilot Agents command center into VS Code
• Sharing custom instructions between the Coding Agent and VS Code
• Adding more documentation

We'd love your thoughts on the experience, so please provide any feedback as issues in the VS Code repo!

Go forth and 100x yourself

We can’t wait to see what you and your new agent friends build together! Keep an eye on the release notes and the Copilot documentation for new developments here.

In the meantime, start making a list of all the things you’d rather not do. Because you’re about to have a few new favorite teammates.