News : Agent Plugins 1.0 ...

Agent Plugins 1.0 is an open, vendor-neutral specification for packaging Agent Skills and MCP server configurations into a single reusable plugin. Package your capabilities once, then bring them into VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and other clients that support the standard. 

The idea is simple: Build once. Use everywhere. 

Agent plugins are prepackaged bundles of agent customizations that you can discover and install from plugin marketplaces in Visual Studio Code. Plugins work alongside your locally defined customizations. When you install a plugin, its supported customizations become available in the relevant agent interfaces.

Agent Plugins is an open standard for packaging agent skills and MCP servers that works across multiple AI agents, including GitHub Copilot in VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and the GitHub Copilot app. VS Code also supports client-specific plugin capabilities, including slash commands, custom agents, rules, hooks, and automation templates. In an Agent Plugins package, most of these capabilities come from the com.github.copilot namespace. The existing Copilot and Claude plugin formats keep their own layouts.

See the official webpage.

Tools : Visual Code Ollama extension for developers.

Use Ollama models in VS Code Chat.

The Ollama extension adds models from your running Ollama server to the VS Code model picker.

Ollama 0.17.6 or newer is recommended for cloud model sign-in and richer model metadata. Older Ollama versions may still work for local models.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code 1.120 or newer
• Ollama installed and running
• At least one local or cloud model available in Ollama

See the official Visual Code with Ollama extension.

News : new features on Visual Studio Code.

Today, some features for Visual Studio Code from last week.

Let's see this list with features:

• Mermaid diagrams are now built directly into VS Code.
• the latest Markdown preview improvements in VS Code, including a new diff view, link validation that catches broken references to headers and HTML IDs, and drag-and-drop support for images;
• Autopilot is now enabled by default and knows when a task is truly done, instead of stopping too early or looping too long;
• The integrated browser remembers your visited pages, surfaced as suggestions in the URL bar;
• Customize which toolbar actions stay persistently visible in the browser;
• Enterprise admins can centrally manage which agent plugins are available to their team;
• Bring your own models to VS Code with BYOK, now without requiring a GitHub Copilot account;
• Chronicle is a new experimental feature in VS Code that tracks your Copilot chat interactions in a local SQLite database.
• Claude Fable 5 is now rolling out in Visual Studio Code.
• Access your agent sessions from anywhere on the web, including the GitHub mobile app using Remote Sessions in VS Code!

Hope this help you developers.