Visual Studio Code 1.121

Name: Visual Studio Code
Author: Microsoft

Last updated: May 18, 2026

Welcome to the 1.121 release of Visual Studio Code.

Happy Coding!

May 18, 2026

Add support for sharing comment feedback in Agent Host sessions, enabling users to provide inline feedback on agent responses. #315061

Improve inline suggestion quality when the suggest control is visible by preventing the control from overriding higher-quality inline completions. #316899

Display a token usage widget in Agent Host sessions to show resource consumption. #316514

Improve tool display in Agent Host sessions to show friendly tool names and enhanced input/output UI for tool calls. #315182
Add auto-approve picker for Agent Host connections. #316179
Add auto permission mode for Claude Agent sessions, using a model-based classifier to automatically approve or deny tool calls. #316647
Add an "Open in Integrated Browser" context menu option for files in the Explorer and editor tabs. #309057 #315969
Render Mermaid diagrams in Copilot CLI chat responses instead of displaying them as raw code blocks. #315185
Add built-in Mermaid.js diagram rendering in Markdown previews, removing the need for a third-party extension. #293028

Automatically pre-select the current workspace folder when opening the Agents window from a VS Code instance. #304200

Add support for pinning favorite models in the language model picker. #299776
Set a VSCODE_AGENT environment variable when Copilot Chat runs commands in the terminal. #311734
Add an "Add to Chat" option to the right-click context menu in integrated browser. #305718
Automatically dispose background terminals created by the chat agent once their command finishes. #287177
Allow extensions contributing markdown.previewScripts to declare their scripts as ES modules by using the { "path": "...", "type": "module" } object syntax. #316328
Expand terminal tool output compression to cover more commands, including test runners (pytest, jest, cargo test), build tools (tsc, cargo build, make), linters, Docker, and package managers. #315881

Add an idle-silence timer to the run_in_terminal tool that automatically promotes a sync command to background execution when it produces no output for a configurable period. #315884
Fix multi-line shell commands in the Agent Host terminal tool. #312922
Bundle a newer version of ConPTY (conpty.dll) directly with VS Code on Windows. #224488

Add keyboard-interactive authentication support for Agent Host SSH connections. #315588

We really appreciate people trying our new features as soon as they are ready, so check back here often and learn what's new.