VS Code 1.137

Microsoft has shipped VS Code 1.137, the September 2026 update of its open-source code editor. The headline theme is automation: agents that work on your schedule, a voice mode for talking to Copilot, and workspace-wide persistent chats.

Automate Recurring Work

Automations is the marquee arrival. You can now schedule Copilot agents to run tasks on an hourly, daily, or weekly cadence, without keeping the editor open. Set a recurring job, and the agent performs the work in the background and reports results back. Microsoft is positioning this as an early step toward scheduled, hands-off development workflows rather than a finished replacement for CI.

Talk to Agents by Voice

Voice Mode lets you drive Copilot chat and agents by speaking instead of typing. Combined with the agent workflow in the previous release, it closes the loop for hands-free interaction during editing sessions.

Persistent Quick Chats and GitHub in the Agent Window

Quick Chats now survive sessions and live in your workspace, so context no longer resets when you close a tab. The Agents window gains GitHub issue and pull request details directly inside it, cutting the back-and-forth between editor and browser.

Experiments and Previews

1.137 ships several preview and experimental features, including agent automations (Preview), the coding pet experiment that livens up the status bar, and refinements to how context is attached to agent prompts. Every feature is gated, so no flags are on by default.

VS Code 1.137 is available now from the official site and auto-updates for existing users.