Iteration Plan for November 2025

[kieferrm]

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 uv for venvs and support new uv specific environment tag from PET vscode-python-environments#938 @eleanorjboyd

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

• API proposals: query @mjbvz @alexr00
• API finalization: query @mjbvz @alexr00

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
• 🏃 Explore minimal presentation of tools 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

• Adding directory support for MCP resources vscode#262368 @dileepyavan
• Enable support for Http/Https based MCP resources vscode#259253 @dileepyavan

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 @pwang347 @aeschli
• ✋ Support GitHub's organization custom instructions vscode#276636 @pwang347 @aeschli
• ⁠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 vscode#278054 @jrieken
• 🏃 Improve inline chat editing vscode#278057 @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
• Register a single InlineCompletionItemProvider vscode#277831 @hediet @benibenj @chrmarti
• 💪 Allow running simulation tests that include the completions model vscode#280344 @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
• Delegating plan mode to background vscode#278484 @joshspicer @unthinkmedia
• 🏃 GH Coding Agent (aka Padawan) integration improvements vscode#278921 @osortega
• GH Copilot CLI sdk upgrade and improvements vscode#277312 @DonJayamanne @rebornix
• Support running CLI agent sessions in background vscode#278922 @DonJayamanne @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

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

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Deferred

• Link MCP servers with Marketplace extensions vscode#271138 @sandy081
• Improve open editor handoff for Plan agent vscode#277432 @aeschli @pwang347
• Improve the speed for import NES suggestions vscode#277811 @benibenj @dbaeumer
• Port the Completions model prompt to use @vscode/prompt-tsx vscode#277829 @dbaeumer
• Adopt ICompletionsFetchService for completions vscode#277830 @chrmarti @ulugbekna
• Explore task-oriented workflow for chat/agent sessions vscode-pr#8076 @mjbvz
• Upgrade tree sitter wasm to latest tree sitter version vscode#274547 @alexr00
• 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

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