Microsoft has shared a roadmap for AI in its IDE, Visual Studio, as of November 2025. It outlines the work that Microsoft is doing and plans to do and involves AI-powered agentic experiences with a focus on giving developers tools that are smarter, faster, and more intuitive. The Redmond giant made clear that the items are not commitments or guarantees for delivery this month.
One of the items on the list is to streamline how users find and switch between modes, it is also looking at how to support more complex workflows. New agents and concurrency being investigated include user created custom agents, a [test agent](https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Copilot-Test-Agent-in…
Microsoft has shared a roadmap for AI in its IDE, Visual Studio, as of November 2025. It outlines the work that Microsoft is doing and plans to do and involves AI-powered agentic experiences with a focus on giving developers tools that are smarter, faster, and more intuitive. The Redmond giant made clear that the items are not commitments or guarantees for delivery this month.
One of the items on the list is to streamline how users find and switch between modes, it is also looking at how to support more complex workflows. New agents and concurrency being investigated include user created custom agents, a test agent, a debugger agent, and there’s an investigation into being able to run multiple Visual Studio Agents concurrently.
Microsoft is also working on improvements to Agent Mode and Chat based on the feedback it has received from the community. It wants to allow you to use slash commands to invoke prompts and managing chats; improve memories so that user custom instructions apply globally; tool calling improvements such as dynamic tool calling and being able to summarize thread history to continue in a thread; and making Planning in Chat read-only and improve the Planning user experience with Inline Preview in Chat.
The company said it’s also trying to implement the full MCP specification so that users can integrate their entire development stack securely. Work that it is focusing on in this regard include improving MCP Sampling Window UX; performance and token usage optimizations for MCP servers; giving organizations the ability to set an allowlist of MCP servers that can be used within their repos; and a MCP Unified UX experience.
Finally, Microsoft said that it wants to expand access to and evaluate the latest models. An interesting feature is this regard is the auto model option that automatically routes prompts to the most appropriate model, reducing manual switching and ensuring users get the best balance of quality and performance. Microsoft also wants to give users access to GPT 5 Codex in Chat to get the best coding suggestion. The firm also wants to improve the user experience for soon-to-be deprecated models so that they don’t leave unexpectedly.
Again, don’t expect all these improvements right now, they will be launched over the coming months, if at all.
Source: Microsoft