Today, we’re excited to share our public roadmap, which outlines the next steps in evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences. With every month, we aim to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools that enhance your coding experience.

Disclaimer: The items outlined here represent ongoing work for the month. They are not commitments or guarantees for delivery within the current month.

With that said, here is what we are working on!

New Modes for Debugging and Profiling:

We’re streamlining how you find and switch between modes and making sure both built-in and extension-provided modes can handle more complex workflows.

Two new agent-powered tools are in progress:

• • Profiler agent
  • Debugger agent

Supporting Customization via Modes

We are making it seamless to integrate your workflows across your development stack into Visual Studio, tailoring them to you and your organization.

• • Custom modes for Copilot Chat
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) Enabled in All Modes

Agent Mode/Chat:                             

We’ve been listening to your feedback on Agent Mode and Chat, and we’re making some big improvements.

Faster performance

• • Agent Mode tool: Speed improvements for code mapping across more models

Better visibility

• • Agent Mode Progress Indication
  • Agent Mode as the default chat experience (Experiment)

Expanding Agent Mode functionality

• • Agent mode tool: run test(s) through test explorer and package search

Smarter context retention

• • Project memories for Copilot Chat
  • Planning/To dos in Copilot Chat
  • Instruction file support for Copilot Chat

More control

• • Allow Disabling Built-In Tools
  • Redirect Agent Mode Mid Response

Model Context Proctol (MCP)

We want you to bring your entire development stack into Visual Studio, supported by the same security, governance, and trust you expect from our product. To make this possible, we’re expanding support for these capabilities and making them easier to use.

• • Support Prompt
  • Support Resources
  • Support Sampling
  • Registry support for browsing and installing MCP servers
  • Enabling governance to support allowlists for MCP servers

Models

We’re committed to giving you access to the latest models, and in Visual Studio we carefully evaluate them to make sure you get the best possible experience. With the recent introduction of Bring Your Own Key, your choice of models is expanding even further.

GitHub Copilot native support:

• • Claude Opus 4.1
  • GPT-5 Mini

Bring Your Own Key support:

• • Azure Foundry
  • Custom URLs (add your own endpoints)

Azure Agentic DevOps

We’re bringing the power of agentic workflows and Azure-native capabilities directly into Visual Studio, so you can build, deploy, and manage your applications with the same security, governance, and trust you expect from our platform. The public preview is now available in Visual Studio 2022, featuring an automatic installation of Azure MCP for a seamless start.

Here’s what’s coming next:

• 1P Azure MCP installation in Visual Studio 2026
  • Publishing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps) support to Azure App Service for .NET applications
  • Custom modes tailored for Azure developers

Editor improvements

Copilot-powered code completions and suggestions in your editor are triggered effortlessly and can accelerate your daily programming. We want to deliver a smooth and intuitive experience for you when interacting with these suggestions that minimize potential conflicts.

• • Receive next edit suggestions predicted based on your last edits
  • Copilot keyboard shortcut to accept suggestion.
  • Use Synthetic Text to Improve Copilot Completions Experiences

To make Visual Studio a truly AI-integrated IDE, we want to ensure that Copilot is seamlessly available at every step of your development workflow—not just for writing code, but also for searching, fixing errors, writing unit tests, and even committing and pushing your changes.

• • Copilot Supported All-In-One Search Experience
  • Quickly Get Copilot Assistance from Your Context Menu

We’re excited for you to try these new experiences soon. If you have feedback, post it in the developer community ticket linked above. For other ideas or suggestions, drop a comment below or create a new ticket—our team reviews them all.

Thanks 😊