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🚀 The latest VS Code release brings more flexibility to Claude sessions and auto-reload for local HTML previews. 🧵 Here's what's new:

Visual Studio Code

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12 Aug

🤖 Switch between Claude BYOK and Copilot models from one turn to the next in the same Claude session. The model picker lets you choose the model for your next turn from both providers.

Visual Studio Code

@vscode.dev

12 Aug

🔓 Experimental: Use Claude in the Agents window without signing in to GitHub. Enable the setting to skip the sign-in prompt.

Visual Studio Code

@vscode.dev

12 Aug

🌐 Local HTML previews now reload automatically when the file changes on disk. Toggle auto-reload per tab or set it as the default.

Visual Studio Code

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📌 Don't lose track of which prompt a chat response belongs to with sticky scroll. The current prompt stays pinned at the top as you scroll, making it clear which response it belongs to.

12/8/26, 5:24 pm0 reposts10 likes

Visual Studio Code

@vscode.dev

12 Aug

🔎 Explore everything that's new in the full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/133 Happy coding! 💙

riley

@riley.technology

12 Aug

"happy coding" directed towards the agents because every VS Code update for the last year has more or less only included changes related to agents