Visual Studio Code 1.114 streamlines AI chat

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.114. The update of Microsoft’s popular code editor streamlines the AI chat experience, offering previews of videos in the image carousel for chat attachments, adding a Copy Final Response command to the chat context menu, simplifying semantic searches of codebases by GitHub Copilot, and more.

Introduced April 1, VS Code 1.114 can be downloaded from the project website.

With VS Code 1.114, the image carousel, introduced in version 1.113, now also supports videos. Developers can play and navigate videos from chat attachments or the Explorer context menu. The viewer provides controls and navigation for images and videos using arrows or thumbnail. Also, there now is a Copy Final Response command in the chat context menu that copies the last Markdown section of the agent’s response, after tool calls have run.

For simplifying workspace searches, the #codebase tool now is used exclusively for semantic searches. Previously, #codebase could fall back to less accurate and less efficient fuzzy text searches. The agent can still do text and fuzzy searches, but Microsoft intends to keep #codebase purely focused on semantic searches. Microsoft also simplified how the codebase index is managed.

Elsewhere in VS Code 1.114:

• A preview feature for troubleshooting previous chat sessions allows developers to reference any previous chat session when troubleshooting. This makes it easier to investigate issues after the fact, without needing to reproduce them, Microsoft said.
• TypeScript and JavaScript support now extends to TypeScript 6.0, which was introduced March 23.
• The Python Environments extension now recommends the community Pixi extension when Pixi environments are detected, and includes Pixi in the environment manager priority order.
• Administrators now can use a group policy to disable Anthropic Claude agent integration in chat. When this policy is applied, the github.copilot.chat.claudeAgent.enabled setting is managed by the organization and users cannot enable the Claude agent.
• A proposed API for fine-grained tool approval allows language model tools with an approval flow to scope approval to a specific combination of arguments, so that users approve each command individually.

VS Code 1.114 is part of a March change where Microsoft has begun releasing weekly updates to VS Code instead of just monthly updates. VS Code 1.115 is likely to be released any day now, under this new policy.