This plan captures our work in September 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early October. It is a continuation of the August plan without any additions. Although a 4-week iteration, we'll have only 1 dev week. The second week is reserved for planning and engineering conversations.

Endgame

• September 29, 2025: Endgame begins
• October 3, 2025: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

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Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge @anthonykim1 team
• Monaco editor forced system colors issues monaco-editor#4945, monaco-editor#4985, and monaco-editor#4942 @hawkticehurst

Code Editor

• 🏃 Allow using LSP in the Monaco Editor vscode#262872 @hediet
• 🏃 Allow configuring font family, font size and line height via syntactic tokens vscode#263545 @aiday-mar

Source Control

• Git: Copilot powered conflict resolutions vscode#255801 @lszomoru

Settings

• 🏃 Re-evaluate settings and defaults throughout VS Code vscode#260404 @cwebster-99

Languages

Python

• 🏃 Roll out Python Environments Extension as bundled by default with the Python Extension vscode-python-environments#190 @eleanorjboyd
• 🏃 Build "Diagnose with AI" flow for Python Environment Extension vscode-python-environments#592 @eleanorjboyd

Terminal

• ⬛ 🏃 Ship shell-agnostic terminal intellisense by default in stable vscode#226562 @meganrogge @Tyriar
• 🏃 Take ownership of terminal-links, terminal-find, terminal-layout, terminal-sticky-scroll, terminal-local-echo, terminal-external vscode#261683 @anthonykim1

Tasks

• Preserve terminal name for task vscode#254295 @meganrogge

API

• API proposals: query @mjbvz @alexr00
• API finalization: query @mjbvz @alexr00

AI

MCP

• Polish MCP client experience, see query @sandy081

Prompt, Instruction and Mode Files

• Support completions for tools in text vscode#262159 @aeschli
• 🏃 Identify and close gaps needed to implement multi-step modes such as TDD vscode#261542 @digitarald @aeschli @roblourens
• Explore expressing MCP or extension dependencies within prompt and mode files vscode#262161 @aeschli
• 💪 Improve /save for reusable prompts vscode#262163 @aeschli

Chat

• ✋ Support to approve agent mode confirmations from desktop notifications vscode#251621 @bpasero
• 🏃 Support for CoT tokens vscode#257104 @justschen @karthiknadig @jo-oikawa
• Handle temporary model issues based on server response vscode#259713 @lramos15
• 🏃 Review and address Chat UX feedback from social channels vscode#26703 @justschen @jo-oikawa @bpasero @isidorn
• Polish Todo list UI vscode#253518 @bhavyaus @digitarald
• 🏃 Explore supporting Mermaid diagram rendering in Chat vscode-copilot-release#7440 @mjbvz

Tools and tools management

• 🏃 Improve pre-selection of tools vscode#263272 @connor4312 @yufanhuang-ms
• 🏃 💪 Improve editing model to correctly reflect file renames vscode#263275 @connor4312

Terminal/task tools

• 🏃 Terminal tool UX refresh vscode#257468 @Tyriar @jo-oikawa
• 💪 Re-routing of calls to terminal tool to appropriate native tools vscode#253884 @Tyriar

NES / Completions

• 🏃 Create an npm package which contains NES as a library vscode-copilot-chat#216 @chrmarti

Integrations

• 🏃 Improve the integration with the GH Coding Agent (aka Padawan)
  • 🏃 Improve Delegate to Coding Agent button workflow vscode#260228 @joshspicer @jo-oikawa
  • 💪 Support generating copilot-setup-steps.yml vscode#260225 @osortega
• 🏃 Chat session provider api vscode#256396 @mjbvz @osortega @joshspicer

Engineering

• Issue Reporter: Add Create/Preview option + repo routing choices vscode#260182 @Yoyokrazy
• Investigate leveraging Playwright MCP with vscode codebase vscode#262164 @TylerLeonhardt

Documentation

• Create agent mode cookbook vscode-docs#8743 @ntrogh @digitarald
• Create docs about using local language models vscode-docs#8869 @ntrogh @isidorn

Website

• None

Deferred

• Inline Chat V2 for notebooks improvement vscode#259903 @amunger
• Improve how the terminal tool deals with multiple terminals vscode#253263 @Tyriar
• Explore Optimistic Next Edit Suggestions vscode-copilot-chat#222 @chrmarti
• Explore layouts for Chat session + Multi File Diff vscode#260226 @joshspicer
• ✋ 💪 Support MCP registries @connor4312
• ✋ Remove all hard-coded styles with variables vscode#248725 @mrleemurray
• Improve VS Code Figma design resources vscode#249227 @kkbrooks
• Monitor the current TypeScript context provider experiment vscode#255373 @dbaeumer
• Improve rendering of prompt file usage in Chat vscode#253014 @aeschli @justschen
• Support Copilot Chat in web vscode#245860 @bpasero
• 💪 Explore anchored quick widget for mouse interactions to attach context vscode#238095 @TylerLeonhardt
• Suggest to user to move app to /Applications on startup vscode#213909 @deepak1556
• 💪 Opt-in to LLM-based approval vscode#253267 @Tyriar
• 💪 Explore offering inline completions in the chat input box vscode#255818 @aiday-mar
• 💪 Explore rendering unaccepted files in SCM vscode#254456 @aiday-mar @lszomoru
• STest cache explorer vscode#255803 @joaomoreno
• Explore moving notebook tools into core vscode#260234 @DonJayamanne @amunger
• 💪 Improve width of ToC, and overall the width of a docs page that's available vscode-docs#8485 @hawkticehurst
• Explore Builtin create pull request tool / integration in Copilot Chat vscode#255387 @alexr00