VS Code Agents (agent mode)
Agent mode in Visual Studio Code: an agent finds relevant code, edits across files and runs checks in your workspace while you review the changes.
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Description
Uses models from your GitHub Copilot plan (Copilot Free available) or your own API key (BYOK).
Agent access
Related
- GitHub Copilot CLI: Brings GitHub Copilot's coding agent to your terminal to read, write and run code where you work.
- Awesome GitHub Copilot: GitHub's community collection of instructions, agents, skills and configurations for GitHub Copilot.
- GitHub Copilot cloud agent: Copilot agent on GitHub.com that takes delegated tasks from issues, pull requests or chat, works in a cloud environment and opens a pull request for review.
Guides & comparisons
- IDE and cloud coding agents compared (Comparison): Cursor, VS Code agent mode, Google Antigravity, Devin and Kiro compared on local versus cloud execution, background tasks, pull-request workflow, model choice, MCP and skills, pricing, and enterprise and privacy controls.
Sources
- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/overview
- https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/overview.md
- https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans
Machine-readable
- JSON
- Markdown
- Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)