Game-changer for coding: Visual Studio debuts fully‑featured Agent mode with MCP support

Written By Nolaine Puig

Microsoft’s June release for Visual Studio unlocks full general availability of the Copilot Agent Mode, offering developers a truly autonomous coding assistant. The feature, now fully integrated into Visual Studio and VS Code, can plan multi‑step workflows, edit across files, resolve errors, and even self-correct—all without stopping at a single prompt. Developers can now accelerate complex development tasks with a proactive AI partner embedded directly into their IDE.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • Agent Mode: Analyze your codebase, propose and apply edits, run commands, fix build/lint errors, and even self-correct — all through a single agent.

  • MCP Integration: Take things further by connecting to MCP servers and expanding capabilities with tools from your entire dev environment.

  • Real-World Use Cases: From adding “Buy Now” buttons to product pages to creating entire web apps, Agent Mode handles high-level tasks with ease.

  • Connected Intelligence: When paired with MCP, Agent Mode taps into real-time context from GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and more.

Nolaine Puig
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