Turns out the winning fork was the thing everybody forked.
Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.
Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release adds contextual side conversations, element-level web feedback and several smaller editor refinements.
Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.