Visual Studio Code 1.147 Insiders adds new tab button and inbox mode
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Visual Studio Code 1.147 Insiders build adds editor tab shortcuts, shared agent sessions across windows, and inbox mode changes for testers.
Visual Studio Code 1.147 Insiders is an early preview build of the editor. It adds new ways to create files and chats, lets agent sessions be shared between windows, and changes inbox mode. Insiders builds are still changing, so some features may change or be removed before they reach a stable release.
The editor tab bar now has a plus button for creating text files, Markdown documents, chats, and integrated browser tabs. This option is experimental. Untitled files can also show a list of actions, such as generating code, starting a chat, choosing a language, or reopening the file in another editor.
Agent sessions can now be shared between the Agents window and WSL, Remote - SSH, or Dev Container editor windows, when both windows use the same agent host. Images pasted into chat are also named after their source file when that file is available.
- Inbox mode (Experimental) lets you drag sessions between compatible categories to pin, hold, clear, archive, or resume them.
- Inbox mode adds an inline Merge Pull Request action for eligible sessions and hides empty categories.
- Inbox mode can filter sessions by workspace and execution environment.
Other changes include a Markdown editor option that shows details and summary tags as collapsible sections, a hover view of the original settings for Compare Models parent chats, shorter worktree cleanup prompts, and minimap section headers for single-line #region comments in HTML and CSS files. The experimental AI Usage Statistics status bar widget has been removed. The notes cover changes from November 10 to November 12, 2026.
Source: Visual Studio Code Blog ↗. This summary is prepared automatically from the official source and may contain mistakes; the source is authoritative.