Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

The new extension for Visual Studio Code aims to end the previous fragmentation and ensure a uniform workflow with Python environments.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

Microsoft is previewing an open-source command-line tool designed to speed up Windows application development, testing, and delivery.

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

AI model said to show improved reasoning capabilities If you want an even better AI model, there could be reason to celebrate. Google, on Thursday, announced the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 features improved skills in coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. are adding music-focused generative artificial intelligence features to their core ...