GitHub has introduced new extensions for its programming tool Copilot, which was launched in 2021. Agent Mode and Copilot Edits are now available in Microsoft's source code editor Visual Studio Code.

GitHub releases Copilot Free for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Developers can use programming help free of charge.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

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VS Code’s June 2025 update supercharges GitHub Copilot with new chat customization tools, smarter inline completions, and an open-source Copilot Chat extension that makes AI-assisted coding more ...

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VS Code team open‑sourced GitHub Copilot Chat (MIT licence) and invites developers to explore, contribute and shape the AI editor.

As far as this tool vs. VS Code is concerned, Firebase Studio gets the win because of the agentic AI and the prototyping tool, which makes it exponentially easier to create, debug, and deploy. On top ...