Iteration Plan for July 2025 #255701

This plan captures our work in July 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early August.

Endgame

• July 28, 2025: Endgame begins
• August 1, 2025: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Accessibility

• Accessibility issues, see query Megan Rogge (@meganrogge) team
• Explore testing VS Code for accessibility via playwright vscode#250767 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Chat link contrast vscode#18548 Kaitlin Brooks (@kkbrooks)

UX

• ✋ Remove all hard-coded styles with variables vscode#248725 Lee Murray (@mrleemurray)
• 🏃 Improve VS Code Figma design resources vscode#249227 Kaitlin Brooks (@kkbrooks)
• Release Notes Refresh vscode-docs#8484 Elijah King (@eli-w-king)
• UX pass over PR description header area vscode#253317 Lee Murray (@mrleemurray) Alex Ross (@alexr00) Brigit Murtaugh (@bamurtaugh)

Workbench

• Support a multi-level tree structure in Quick Pick for tools use case vscode#250638 vscode#252054 TylerLeonhardt
• Support Windows package identity to preserve device permissions vscode#254613 Robo (@deepak1556)

Getting started

• Improve #new getting started experience to support additional templates and entry points vscode#256739 Bhavya U (@bhavyaus)

Code Editor

• Render screen reader content as rich HTML vscode#251619 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• Explore rendering "AI impact" vscode#255655 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet) Lee Murray (@mrleemurray)

Notebook Editor / Jupyter Notebooks

• Improve inline chat for notebook (with inlineChat.enableV2) vscode#255807 Aaron Munger (@amunger)
• 🏃 Improve next edit suggestions for notebooks vscode#255704 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)
• Jupyter kernel: support environments created by uv vscode-jupyter#16783 Don Jayamanne (@DonJayamanne)

Source Control

• Git: Copilot powered conflict resolutions vscode#255801 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Support drag-and-drop of commits from the Graph view to Chat vscode#254903 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Support for Git Worktrees vscode#68038 Christy 🦦 (@nguyenchristy) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)

Settings

• Roll out AI settings search vscode#255486 Raymond Zhao (@rzhao271)
• Use /download/latest API when turning on sync vscode#255368 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Extensions

• Default settings should reload when exp service reloads vscode#255797 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Languages

TypeScript and JavaScript

• Ship TypeScript 5.9 vscode#258302 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Python

• 🏃 Roll out Python Environments Extension as bundled by default with the Python Extension vscode-python-environments#190 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd) Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)
• 🏃 Build "Diagnose with AI" flow for Python Environment Extension vscode-python-environments#592 Eleanor Boyd (@eleanorjboyd)
• Improve experience for people opting into PyREPL for Python >= 3.13 vscode-python#25240 vscode-python#25241 vscode-python#25296 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Terminal

• ⬛ Ship shell-agnostic terminal intellisense by default in stable vscode#226562 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• onTerminal activation event proposed API vscode#252413 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• onTerminalShellIntegration activation event proposed API vscode#252412 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• LSP documentation in terminal suggest vscode#252317 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• Bugs in terminal env collection query Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃 Bugs in terminal shell integration query Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)

Tasks

• Expose terminal on taskExecution as proposed API vscode#234440 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

API

• API proposals: query Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• API finalization: query Matt Bierner (@mjbvz) Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 🏃 BYOK API vscode#250007 Logan Ramos (@lramos15)

Extension Contributions

GitHub Pull Requests

• Default to @copilot as a placeholder in comments in Padawan PRs vscode-pull-request-github#7284 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Wait to get timeline after commenting on Padawan PRs vscode-pull-request-github#7231 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Ability to open commits in VS Code without checking out the PR vscode-pull-request-github#7346 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Show Copilot Coding Agent tasks overall progress vscode-pull-request-github#7148 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• Improve PR list view performance vscode-pull-request-github#7141 Alex Ross (@alexr00)

AI

MCP

• Revisit MCP tool refresh UX vscode#248010 Connor Peet (@connor4312) Joanna Oikawa (@jo-oikawa)
• 🏃 Polish MCP client experience, see query Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)

Prompt and Instruction Files

• None.

Chat

• 🏃 Support desktop notifications when in agent mode vscode#251621 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Improve terminal inline chat experience in sub-shells vscode#254462 Anthony Kim (@anthonykim1)
• 🏃 Support for CoT tokens vscode#257104 Karthik Nadig (@karthiknadig) Justin Chen (@justschen)
• 🏃 Support math (Katex) syntax rendering in Chat vscode#255243 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Explore supporting Mermaid diagram rendering in Chat vscode-copilot-release#7440 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 💪 Explore offering inline completions in the chat input box vscode#255818 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar)
• 🏃 Explore Auto mode vscode#252795 Logan Ramos (@lramos15) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Kaitlin Brooks (@kkbrooks)
• 🏃 Explore transparency around token use vscode#249983 Kaitlin Brooks (@kkbrooks) Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Explore pre-selection of tools vscode#248021 Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Support chat participants in Agent mode vscode#255921 roblourens
• Explore rendering checkpoints in SCM vscode#254458 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 💪 Explore rendering unaccepted files in SCM vscode#254456 Aiday Marlen Kyzy (@aiday-mar) Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• Render Copilot agent PRs in chat view vscode#255383 Alex Ross (@alexr00)
• 💪 Explore showing most recent chat history entries in empty chat vscode#251187 Justin Chen (@justschen)
• Improve checkpoints and message editing vscode#256071 Justin Chen (@justschen) Joanna Oikawa (@jo-oikawa)

Terminal/task tools

• Move run in terminal tool into core vscode#252650 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Investigate run in terminal tool hanging issues vscode#255396 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Investigate run in terminal output read issues vscode#257439 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Terminal auto approve
  • Refine the setting vscode#253314, vscode#253472 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Allow matching against full command line vscode#256280 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Support flags in regular expression matchers vscode#256742 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • 🏃 ✋ Tell the user why or why not something was auto approved vscode#256793 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • UI entry point to auto-approve future commands vscode#253268 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
  • Opt-in to LLM-based approval vscode#253267 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Copilot Terminal Awareness for Long-Running or Error-Prone Commands vscode#251653 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• 🏃 Auto handling and announcing Y/N terminal confirmations vscode#258252 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Track all terminals in agent context vscode#254495 Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)
• Move run in task tool into core vscode#257100Megan Rogge (@meganrogge)

NES / Completions

• Adopt NES provider onchange event vscode#256458 Henning Dieterichs (@hediet)
• Experiment: Increase the NES debounce times vscode#255727 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)
• 🏃 Experiment: Re-invoke NES with a larger edit window after replies with "no edits" vscode#255728 Ulugbek Abdullaev (@ulugbekna)
• Optimize caching for TypeScript context provider vscode#255371 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)
• Monitor the current TypeScript context provider experiment vscode#255373 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Integrations

• Improve the integration with the GH Coding Agent (aka Padawan) vscode#255483 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Alex Ross (@alexr00) team
  • GitHub Pull Requests extension improvements (query) Alex Ross (@alexr00)
  • Explore bringing Copilot Agents command center into VS Code vscode#256987 Osvaldo Ortega (@osortega)
  • Explore integrated chat view for Coding Agent session vscode#256988 joshspicer Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • 🏃 Chat session provider api vscode#256396 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
  • Add docs for Coding Agents vscode-docs#8561 Brigit Murtaugh (@bamurtaugh)
  • Share instruction.md files between Coding Agent and VS Code vscode#255913 Peng Lyu (@rebornix) Chuck Lantz (@Chuxel)

Engineering

• ✋ Explore a better Windows update flow vscode#249239 Robo (@deepak1556)
• Move to GitHub Actions for Code OSS vscode#257093 Ladislau Szomoru (@lszomoru)
• 🏃 STest cache explorer vscode#255803 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Electron

• Electron 37 update vscode#252152 Robo (@deepak1556)

Documentation

• Investigate updates needed for Python Environments extension vscode-docs#8603 Courtney Webster (@cwebster-99)

Website

• 🏃 Improve width of ToC, and overall the width of a docs page that's available vscode-docs#8485 Hawk Ticehurst (@hawkticehurst)
• Support headings (H2, H3) inside a <details> tag vscode-docs#8486 Hawk Ticehurst (@hawkticehurst)
• Enable showing an expanded version of a table (useful for wide tables) vscode-docs#8488 Hawk Ticehurst (@hawkticehurst)
• Include telemetry for ToC click behavior vscode-docs#8489 Hawk Ticehurst (@hawkticehurst)

Deferred

• Collapse consecutive file edits of the same file Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Explore supporting a selection of CLI agents roblourens
• Improve rendering of prompt file usage in Chat vscode#253014 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli) Justin Chen (@justschen)
• 💪 Improve tool picker for toolsets vscode#252054 roblourens TylerLeonhardt
• Support Copilot Chat in web vscode#245860 Benjamin Pasero (@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 Robo (@deepak1556)