Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a code editor that supports editing, navigating, understanding, debugging, and extending software projects. Developers use it for the edit-build-debug cycle, and the catalogue add-ons provide skills, instructions, and agents for working within the editor.
Latest release 1.142.0 · 14 Oct 2026
82 files for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode: launch, Data, Demonstrate, vscode copilot-instructions.md and 78 more — 42,052 tokens loaded in every session.
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