This week, we focused on making conversations feel more reliable and context-aware by improving local memory and resume behavior. At the same time, VS Code chat received several usability refinements so indicators, controls, and input handling behave more predictably during interactive sessions.
You can now keep richer, per-project memory on disk so the assistant retains useful knowledge across sessions while still honoring local overrides. Resume and context rehydration are more robust and faster thanks to optimized presence checks and a shared visibility predicate that makes onboarding and startup behavior consistent.
Miscellaneous
Enhancements
VS Code chat UX and input experience
Improved skill discovery for bundled SKILL.md assets
Updated document search wording to report results
Improved product question guidance to use docs web search
Improved streaming tool-call UX and partial input handling
Bug Fixes
Fixed auto logout on websearch failures
Fixed message queue draining after compression