Iteration Plan for February 2026 [DRAFT]

[kieferrm]

This plan captures our work in February 2026. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early March.

Endgame

• February 23, 2026: Endgame begins
• February 27, 2026: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Important

We're experimenting with changing the structure of the plan. This is work in progress. What you see below is a fragment of the plan.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔴	missing issue reference

Accessibility

• 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team

Workbench

• Support in-context Quick Pick interactions vscode#238095 @lszomoru @TylerLeonhardt
• Metered network connections support vscode#103451 @dmitrivMS
• Update UI improvements vscode#277330 @dmitrivMS
• Update progress indicator on Windows vscode#293872 @dmitrivMS
• Fix double update issue on Windows vscode#268531 @dmitrivMS
• 💪 Title bar update UI vscode#293891 @dmitrivMS

Code Editor

• 🏃 Allow configuring font family, font size and line height via syntactic tokens vscode#263545 @aiday-mar

Languages

Python

• 🏃 Ship Python Environments Extension to 100% of users and handle various bug fixes vscode-python-environments-query @eleanorjboyd

Terminal

Theme	Description	Owners
🖥️ Terminal Profiles	Elevate AI CLI Terminal Profiles	@meganrogge
🖼️ Terminal Image Support	Kitty graphics protocol MVP	@anthonykim1
🪟 Terminal Windows Experience	Ship newer conpty and fix Windows 25H2 issues	@anthonykim1 @Tyriar
🖥️ External Terminal Experience	Enhance multi-root external terminal experience, Ghostty compatibility	@anthonykim1

Details

- [ ] :runner: :hand: Conpty issues @anthonykim1
- [ ] Ship newer version of conpty [vscode#224488](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/224488) @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
- [ ] Issues from conpty on Windows 25H2 [vscode#243584](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/243584), [vscode#241978](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/241978) [vscode#274372](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/274372) @anthonykim1 @Tyriar
- [ ] :runner: :muscle: Implement kitty graphics protocol [vscode#286141](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/286141) @anthonykim1

API

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

Source Control

• 🏃 Git: Support setup steps for new worktrees vscode#276834 @lszomoru

AI

Chat

• 🏃 Polish Agent Sessions UI query @bpasero @lostintangent
• 🏃 Chat: Support contributable chat context resources vscode#271104 @alexr00
• 🏃 Improve chat response rendering query @justschen @jo-oikawa @hawkticehurst
• 🏃 Chat Sessions Controller API @mjbvz vscode#276243
• 🏃 Revisit terminal tool running background terminals UX vscode#274550 @Tyriar
• Tips Feature @meganrogge @sbatten
  Details

  - [ ] Make tips contextual [vscode#290019](https://github.com/Indicate what's new in chat in a context aware way #290019) @meganrogge - [ ] Enable devs to easily add tips via a showcase label and pipeline [vscode-engineering#1777](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-engineering/issues/1777) @meganrogge - [ ] Add context menu actions like dismiss and don't show again [vscode#293507](https://github.com/add context menu to tips element #293507) @meganrogge - [ ] Experiment with location [vscode-internalbacklog#6646](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-internalbacklog/issues/6646) @meganrogge - [ ] Consider using tips for new model announcements [vscode#293526](https://github.com/Use tips for new model announcements #293526) @meganrogge
• Model picker improvements vscode#6754 @sandy081

MCP

• None.

Inline Chat

• None.

NES / Completions

• None.

Agents

• 🏃 Support for Claude Agent vscode#266962 @TylerLeonhardt

Prompt/Instruction Files and Custom Agents

• 💪 Improve open editor handoff for Plan agent vscode#277432 @aeschli @pwang347

Code Review

• 💪 Notify user when CCR no-ops vscode#277286 @benvillalobos
• 💪 Add Chat: Code Review command vscode#276977 @benvillalobos

Documentation

• 💪 Working with large codebases user guide vscode-docs#8932 @digitarald @ntrogh
• Best practices for working with agents in VS Code vscode-docs#8581 @ntrogh
• Refresh AI customization docs vscode-docs#9344 @ntrogh
• 🏃 Add guide for developer-adjacent roles to leverage AI features vscode-docs#9345 @ntrogh @digitarald

Engineering

• Use esbuild to transpile and bundle VS Code @jrieken

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Deferred

• Explore layouts for Chat session + Multi File Diff vscode#260226 @joshspicer
• Update Profiles UI to include AI features vscode#270130 @eli-w-king
• Refine chat motion rendering vscode#287175 @hawkticehurst @justchen @roblourens

[iwangbowen]

Always looking forward to new updates

[gjsjohnmurray]

Adding another plea for some love to be shown to the FileSearchProvider (#73524) and TextSearchProvider (#59921) APIs which some of us extension developers are longing to see finalized 🙏 🙏

[Paganini-00]

Please implement new abilities and modes to the agent mode that it can allow us to initiate much more longer, workflow and mission based long-term Agentic Coding tasks that abides to a workflow or mission and the workflow must be designable and created all by ourself either by user with manual inputs or with agent guidance. Not like skill.md but works directly within copilot and accessible in copilot panel like agent mode but it allows long term, workflow based tasks.

[harlenehilongo19-ctrl]

https://github.com/copilot/share/881f43ac-4900-84a0-8951-5c05044b40ff