VS Code 1.128 brings multi-chat agent sessions and general availability for Copilot Vision

Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.128 on July 8, 2026, and the headline feature is multi-chat agent sessions: a single Claude-powered agent session in the Agents window can now hold several related chats at once, so a developer can run a main conversation, fork an alternate approach, and track a parallel test-writing chat side by side, each keeping its own history and model choice. The release also adds "quick chats" that open without picking a workspace first, and a preview of read-only subagent chats so a session's delegated workers can be watched without interrupting them.

Alongside the agent work, Copilot Vision reaches general availability, letting Chat accept pasted or dragged images and PDFs, and VS Code gains OS-level keyboard shortcuts that fire even when the editor isn't focused. Enterprise admins also get managed OpenTelemetry export settings for Copilot usage data. Together the changes point to an IDE increasingly built around running and supervising multiple agent workflows at once rather than a single chat thread.

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