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Continue where you work best

Keep your work moving across windows, Copilot experiences, and devices. Switch between orchestrating agents and working directly with code, pick up work started elsewhere, and connect to your development environment from the desktop or browser.

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Zoom out to orchestrate. Zoom in to code.

Choose your focus, not a different task. Move agent sessions between the Agents window and editor without restarting the conversation.

VS Code Agents window with a sessions list, agent conversation, and changes panel. VS Code Agents window with a sessions list, agent conversation, and changes panel.

Orchestrate across projects

Use the Agents window to assign higher-level tasks, monitor multiple sessions across projects, and review where your attention is needed.

Open the Agents window
VS Code editor with an agent conversation alongside the project's code. VS Code editor with an agent conversation alongside the project's code.

Collaborate alongside your code

Focus on one project with your agent beside the editor. Inspect changes, refine an implementation, run tests, and debug together.

Open chat in the editor

Started elsewhere? Keep going here.

Start where the task finds you. Continue supported Copilot sessions or pick up cloud-agent work in VS Code when you want its editing, testing, and debugging tools at hand.

Step away from your desk, not your work.

Check in on your agents from another device while they run on your development machine.

  • In VS Code: connect over SSH or a dev tunnel to manage sessions, edit code, and debug on your host.
  • In your browser: use a dev tunnel to review changes and steer sessions in the browser-based Agents window.
Connect to remote agent sessions
Browser-based Agents window prompting you to connect a development host through a tunnel. Browser-based Agents window prompting you to connect a development host through a tunnel.

Your tools, wherever you work.

Continuing the task is about more than the conversation. Work with the code, tools, and environment your project needs, from a remote machine, inside a Dev Container, or in your browser.

A project-ready environment

Dev Containers define your project's tools, runtimes, and dependencies as code, so you and your teammates can work from a consistent setup.

Explore Dev Containers

Your remote machine, within reach

Connect over SSH or Dev Tunnels to use VS Code's editing, terminal, and debugging tools. Your code and development tools stay on the remote machine.

Explore Remote SSH Explore Dev Tunnels

Pick up your next step.

Orchestrate, collaborate, or check in from somewhere else. Choose how you want to work next, with your code and tools within reach.

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