Iteration Plan for November 2025 #277757
Description
This plan captures our work in November 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early December.
Endgame
- December 1, 2025: Endgame begins
- December 5, 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:
| Mark | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏃 | work in progress |
| ✋ | blocked task |
| 💪 | stretch goal for this iteration |
| 🔴 | missing issue reference |
| 🔵 | more investigation required to remove uncertainty |
| ⚫ | under discussion within the team |
| ⬛ | a large work item, larger than one iteration |
Accessibility
- 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
Workbench
- 🏃 Glob matching should be case insensitive vscode#10633 @dmitrivMS
- 💪 Investigate improvements for simple browser vscode#277298 @kycutler @jruales
- 🏃 Support in-context Quick Pick interactions vscode#238095 @lszomoru @joaomoreno
Code Editor
- 🏃 Allow configuring font family, font size and line height via syntactic tokens vscode#263545 @aiday-mar
Languages
Python
- 🏃 Roll out Python Environments Extension as bundled by default with the Python Extension vscode-python-environments#190 @eleanorjboyd
- ✋ 🏃 Create setting to toggle using
uvfor venvs and support newuvspecific environment tag from PET vscode-python-environments#938 @eleanorjboyd
- ✋ 🏃 Create setting to toggle using
Terminal
- 🏃 Ramp up on terminal-process @anthonykim1
- 🏃 Investigate issues integrating conpty on Windows 25H2 vscode#243584, vscode#241978 vscode#274372 @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
- ✋ 🏃 Investigate issues around cwd and remotes vscode#272892 @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
- Bugs in terminal links: query @anthonykim1
API
AI
Chat
- 🏃 Chat: Support contributable chat context resources vscode#271104 @alexr00
- 🏃 Chat: Improve model management UI vscode#270143 @sandy081
- 🏃 Linkification improvements: improve file path links with precise line anchors vscode#276767 @vijayupadya
- 🏃 Redesign prompt area responsive layout to reduce clutter vscode#272502 @unthinkmedia
- 🏃 Polish thinking token rendering vscode#257104 @justschen @karthiknadig @jo-oikawa
- 🏃 Continue polishing chat output vscode#273444 @jo-oikawa @Tyriar @meganrogge @justschen
- Support Entra to authenticate to Azure models vscode#270234 @eleanorjboyd
- Improve life cycle management vscode#277318 @roblourens @connor4312
- 🏃 Show terminal inside chat view vscode#257468 @meganrogge
- Revisit terminal tool running background terminals UX vscode#274550 @Tyriar
MCP
- Link MCP servers with Marketplace extensions vscode#271138 @sandy081
Prompt, Instruction and Mode Files
- 🏃 Align tool names with GitHub custom agents vscode#272734 @pwang347 @aeschli
- Adopt GitHub API to discover Enterprise/Organization custom agent modes vscode#274341 @aeschli @pwang347
- Support GitHub's organization custom instructions vscode#276636 @aeschli @pwang347
- Improve open editor handoff for Plan agent vscode#277432 @aeschli @pwang347
- 💪 Explore support for infer property vscode#277431 @aeschli @pwang347
- 💪 Investigate for code-execution (see Claude skills) vscode#277433 @aeschli @pwang347
Inline Chat
- 🏃 Inline Chat V2 for notebooks improvement vscode#259903 @amunger
- 🔴 Allow connecting the new UI with the older backend @jrieken
- 🔴 Unify the intent prompts by reusing the edit mode @jrieken
NES / Completions
- 🏃 NES at distance in the same file vscode#277816 @benibenj @hediet @mrleemurray
- 🏃 Explore rendering cross-file next edits vscode#271133 @benibenj @hediet @mrleemurray
- Render NES / Completions model information in the status bar vscode#277826 @hediet
- Explore invoking semantic rename with NES vscode#277818 @dbaeumer
- Revive TypeScript context provider experiment vscode#255373 @dbaeumer
- Include diagnostics in NES prompts vscode#277809 @benibenj @ulugbekna
- Improve the speed for import NES suggestions vscode#277811 @benibenj @dbaeumer
- Port the Completions model prompt to use
@vscode/prompt-tsxvscode#277829 @dbaeumer - Adopt
ICompletionsFetchServicefor completions vscode#277830 @chrmarti @ulugbekna - Register a single
InlineCompletionItemProvidervscode#277831 @hediet @benibenj @chrmarti - 💪 🔴 Allow running simulation tests that include the completions model @ulugbekna @benibenj
Agents
- 🏃 Chat Sessions: Support single view vscode#270945 @bpasero @osortega @eli-w-king
- 🏃 Agent Sessions UX/UI Improvements vscode#277524 @eli-w-king @bpasero @jo-oikawa @mrleemurray @hawkticehurst
- Improve delegation between foreground/background/cloud agents vscode#277313 @joshspicer
- 🔴 GH Coding Agent (aka Padawan) integration improvements @osortega
- GH Copilot CLI sdk upgrade and improvements vscode#277312 @rebornix @DonJayamanne
- 🔴 Support running CLI agent sessions in background @rebornix @osortega
- Chat session provider/editor api vscode#256396 @mjbvz @roblourens
- Sandboxing terminal while running commands through agent vscode#277286 @dileepyavan
- Explore git worktree support for agents vscode#268219 @lszomoru
Code Review
- 💪 Investigate why local copilot code review is slow vscode#276974 @benvillalobos
Electron
- 🏃 Support a better Windows update flow vscode#249239 @deepak1556
Engineering
- 🏃 Engineering: ESM restore support for ASAR vscode#228064 @deepak1556
- 🏃 Explore leveraging Playwright MCP to "record a demo" as part of pull request review vscode#272529 @TylerLeonhardt
- Explore task-oriented workflow for chat/agent sessions vscode-pr#8076 @mjbvz
- Upgrade tree sitter wasm to latest tree sitter version vscode#274547 @alexr00
Documentation
- 🏃 Test-driven development user guide vscode-docs#8951 @ntrogh @digitarald
- 💪 Working with large codebases user guide vscode-docs#8932 @digitarald @ntrogh
- 🏃 Refresh Source Control overview vscode-docs#8964 @ntrogh
- 🏃 Investigate automatically generating Insiders release notes using AI based on PRs vscode-docs#9071 @ntrogh
Deferred
- Explore layouts for Chat session + Multi File Diff vscode#260226 @joshspicer
- Update Profiles UI to include AI features vscode#270130 @eli-w-king
- 🏃 Explore Optimistic Next Edit Suggestions vscode-copilot-chat#222 @chrmarti