AI BriefingVS Copilot April Update
·2026.05.02 01:22
Key point
Cloud agents and a Debugger agent have been added to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio.
Details
In the Visual Studio 2026 April Update, GitHub Copilot has been expanded around agentic workflow.
- You can launch a Cloud agent directly inside the IDE and carry through from issue creation to writing a PR on remote infrastructure.
- User-level custom agents can be stored in
%USERPROFILE%/.github/agents/, allowing personal agents to be reused across projects. .claude/skills/and.agents/skills/have been added to the skill locations agents search, broadening compatibility alongside the existing.github/skills/.- The new Debugger agent supports a workflow that reproduces, instruments, and diagnoses bugs in the actual runtime, then verifies the fix.
- Keyboard shortcuts for Copilot inline suggestions can now be customized at the level of
Edit.AcceptSuggestion,Edit.AcceptNextWordInSuggestion, andEdit.AcceptNextLineInSuggestion. - A new chat history panel lets you see session titles, message previews, and timestamps at a glance.
- C++ code editing tools are now enabled by default, and C++ code navigation has been strengthened with
get_symbol_call_hierarchyandget_symbol_class_hierarchy. - The text visualizer's Auto-detect and format automatically identifies encoding and compression formats and decodes them.
The update is available first on the Visual Studio Insiders channel, with links to the GitHub Changelog, the Visual Studio blog, and release notes.
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