Visual Studio Code 1.137 has been released. It adds Automations, a preview feature for recurring agent tasks on a schedule.
Automations can run on demand or be scheduled hourly, daily, or weekly. The Agents window can open details of GitHub issues and pull requests directly, without a browser.
This also works when the repository workspace is not open.
Claim check:
- Visual Studio Code 1.137 has been released. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Welcome to the 1.137 release of Visual Studio Code.»)
- It adds Automations, a preview feature for recurring agent tasks on a schedule. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Automations run recurring agent tasks on a schedule, so routine work does not have to be started manually.»)
- Automations can run on demand or be scheduled hourly, daily, or weekly. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «You can run an automation on demand or schedule it to run hourly, daily, or weekly.»)
- The Agents window can open details of GitHub issues and pull requests directly, without a browser. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Select a github.com issue or pull request link to open its details directly in the Agents window, without switching to a browser.»)
- This also works when the repository workspace is not open. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «This also works when you don’t have a workspace for that repository open.»)
Primary sources:
score 67.1 · kind release · revision 1 · stories st-nw9z73