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March 20, 2026

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Highlights

This week focused on making conversations feel more reliable and context-aware by improving local memory, resume behavior, and onboarding visibility. At the same time, VS Code chat received several usability refinements so indicators, controls, and input handling behave more predictably during interactive sessions.

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New features

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Conversation memory and context handling

You can now keep richer, per-project memory on disk so the assistant retains useful knowledge across sessions while still honoring local overrides. Resume and context rehydration are more robust and faster thanks to optimized presence checks and a shared visibility predicate that makes onboarding and startup behavior consistent.

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Debug and hardware development tooling

You can use a modern GDB backend for debugging workflows and benefit from SVD-aware register verification that checks register definitions after edits and writes. These additions help the agent make safer, more informed suggestions when working with hardware registers and debug sessions.

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Miscellaneous

  • VS Code chat UX and input experience
  • Improved skill discovery for bundled SKILL.md assets
  • Updated document search wording to report results
  • Improved product question guidance to use docs web search
  • Improved streaming tool-call UX and partial input handling
  • Fixed auto logout on websearch failures
  • Fixed message queue draining after compression
Last modified on May 23, 2026