Issue #185 (A Unified Experience for All Coding Agents)11/05/25
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There's a whole slew of ways you can customize your VS Code Chat experience, which can be pretty overwhelming. It's useful to be able to view specific settings related to Chat. For example, you can simply type the word "chat" in your settings search and you should get a pretty good idea of what chat-related settings are available to customize.
This brings up more than 130 settings on my machine.
But if you want to be more accurate, you can use the @feature filter query using the form @feature:chat to filter only the Chat settings.
Now the available settings are narrowed down more.
Alternatively, if you're working in your Chat sidebar, you can show the same group of filtered settings by clicking the cog icon ("Configure chat...") then choosing "Chat Settings" in the options under there.
This might be useful if you're simply forgotten the exact syntax for filtering settings. From there you can customize whatever chat-related settings you want and even maybe discover some settings you didn't know existed.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Workflow Snapshot & Replay — An AI-native VS Code extension that automatically captures your development workflow, generates beautiful Markdown documentation, and enables seamless workflow reproduction across different environments.
Type Buddy — A simple VS Code extension to help you understand TypeScript types by hovering over a complex type to reveal the type as a function.
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VSCoder Copilot — A VS Code extension that enables AI-powered mobile development with GitHub Copilot integration, cross-network device pairing, and real-time collaboration. See articles section below for the author's explanation of the tool.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Pop N' Lock — Described as a "perfectly balanced TypeScript theme with vivid colours." TypeScript developers will have to judge if that statement is accurate, but it's a very unique theme with lots of color (which the author of one of the articles below would hate!).
The screenshot above shows you the primary theme but the package includes four themes. I would say they're all similar but the ones not shown are a little less gaudy in my opinion. You might actually like those ones better – I just wanted to show the boldest one of the bunch here.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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A Unified Experience for All Coding Agents — The VS Code team describes how they're continuing to improve the agent experience in VS Code, to include features like OpenAI Codex integration, agent sessions, and a planning agent, among others.
Why I Switched Back From VS Code to IntelliJ IDEA: A Developer's Journey — Some of the main arguments include IntelliJ's superior Git integration, efficient project management, enhanced debugging, and seamless database integration.
The Morning Paper for Tech — Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News that takes just a few minutes to read? Try TLDR's free daily newsletter. It covers the most interesting tech, startup, and programming stories in just 5 minutes. No sports and no politics. Sponsor
How I Built a Bridge Between VS Code and My Phone – VSCoder Copilot — Article on the tool mentioned above, which allows you to review pull requests or fix bugs from your phone without SSH or a remote desktop setup.
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Best of the Rest
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I Am Sorry, But Everyone is Getting Syntax Highlighting Wrong — The author is making a case that most syntax highlighters use too many colors, making it more difficult to understand code.
Building a Better Online Editor for TypeScript — Discussion of the new and improved Val Town integrated web editor experience which has been recently rewritten.
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HandsFree — A unique hands-free coding experiment that lets you write code by whistling in different tones. Yes, you read that correctly.
If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.
That's it for this issue.
Happy VS Coding!
Louis
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris
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