Microsoft is providing a Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for its Visible Studio Code editor, enabling builders to construct and handle Copilot Studio brokers from VS Code.
Launched January 14, the extension may be accessed from the Visible Studio Market. The extension is meant to make it potential to develop AI brokers in a well-recognized editor, with supply management, and with AI assist when wished, in line with Microsoft. The device supplies language help, IntelliSense code recommendations and completions, and authoring capabilities for Copilot Studio agent parts. Microsoft defined that as brokers develop past a couple of subjects and prompts, groups want the identical improvement “hygiene” used for apps: supply management, pull requests, change historical past, and repeatable deployments. The VS Code extension brings this workflow to Copilot Studio so builders can collaborate with out shedding velocity or governance, the corporate mentioned.
With this extension, builders can construct and refine a Copilot Studio agent with AI assist in the identical place they write different code. Builders can use GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or any VS Code AI assistant to draft new subjects, replace instruments, and rapidly repair points in an agent definition, then sync modifications again to Copilot Studio to check and iterate. Microsoft has designed the agent for the way in which builders work, with help for traditional Git integration for versioning and collaboration, pull request-based evaluations, and auditability over time, with a historical past of modifications. The extension additionally helps VS Code ergonomics, with keyboard shortcuts, search, navigation, and an area dev loop.
