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VS Code 1.120 Released

·2026.05.14 13:28

Key point

VS Code 1.120 adds an Agents window preview and BYOK improvements to Stable.

Details

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable, along with enhanced visibility and control for BYOK-based models.

  • Agents window: A dedicated window for working with agents across multiple projects is now available in Stable.
  • BYOK improvements: Track and optimize token usage, and configure thinking effort for reasoning models.
  • Token optimization: Long terminal output is compressed to reduce consumption of the model's context window.

As next steps, the team previewed Stable support for custom endpoints, and the ability to use BYOK models for utility tasks like commit message generation and chat title summarization.

Per the official release notes, the release date is May 13, 2026.

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