A new monthly version of Microsoft’s code editor, Visual Studio Code 1.105, was released few days ago.
The release added 2 new AI chat models, GPT-5-Codex and Claude Sonnet 4.5. In addition to Google and Github account, it now allows to sign in or sign up GitHub Copilot with an Apple account, along with
The AI chat now supports fully qualified tool names for prompt files and chat modes, which can help to avoid naming conflicts between built-in tools and tools provided by MCP servers or extensions.
Support for AGENTS.md at the root of workspace is now generally available and enabled by default. There’s as well experimental support for nested AGENTS.md files in sub-folders of your workspace.
The release also improved the OS notifications for chat sessions. It now shows a notification with preview when a chat response is received, and selecting it brings focus to the chat input.
Other AI chat changes include:
- Chain of thought (Experimental).
- Show recent local chat conversations (Experimental).
- Ability to keep or undo changes to files during an agent loop.
- New
Ctrl+Alt+Up/Downshortcut keys to navigate through your chat messages. - Platform-specific terminal profiles.
- Add ‘learning’ mechanism to select the optimal tool set for custom models.
- Auto-reply to terminal prompts (Experimental).
Besides that, VS Code 1.105 introduced built-in MCP marketplace, which enables users to browse and install MCP servers directly from the Extensions view, though disabled by default.
The new or outdated MCP servers are now started automatically when you send a chat message. There are as well 2 new MCP specification updates SEP-973 and SEP-1034.
The new vs code release also improved the editor experience, by adding ability to override the default keyboard shortcuts for the Quick Input controls, and possibility to disallow next edit suggestions (NES) to propose whitespace-only changes such as code formatting.
The runTests tool in Chat now also reports test code coverage to the agent, and it now shows notification when long-running task completes while the VS Code window is not focused.
Other changes in the release include:
- Shell integration for pwsh on Windows support for screen readers.
- Add ability to resolve merge conflicts with AI.
- New “Start Dictation in Terminal” action to use voice dictation to input text into the terminal.
- Native broker support for Microsoft Authentication on ARM-series macOS devices.
- PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) support for GitHub Authentication.
- Add Copy Test Id command to run gutter icon context menu.
Get Visual Studio Code 1.105
For more about the release, as well as download links for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, go to its website via the link below:
For Ubuntu, besides download & install the deb package from the link above, there’s also Snap package available to install in App Center (or Ubuntu Software).
While, a community maintained flatpak package is also available for choice. See this guide for how to install them.
