GitHub Copilot: Parallel Agent Sessions in VS Code
GitHub CopilotThe VS Code Agents window now supports running multiple Copilot agent sessions side-by-side, plus multiple chats within a single session. Developers can group sessions, drag and drop them, and track per-session and per-subagent cost. The change makes it practical to run several agentic tasks at once without losing track of what each one is doing or what it costs.
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Run Multiple Agents at Once
GitHub Copilot's Agents window in VS Code now supports parallel agent sessions, letting developers run several agentic tasks side-by-side instead of one at a time. Within a single session, users can also open multiple chats, keeping related threads together.
Organization and Cost Visibility
To keep parallel work manageable, the update adds grouping and drag-and-drop for sessions, so developers can arrange their active agents however makes sense for the task. It also introduces per-session and per-subagent cost tracking, giving a clear view of what each running agent is consuming. That visibility matters as agentic workflows spawn subagents and run longer tasks in the background.
Why It Helps
Parallel sessions turn the Agents window into more of a control center: kick off a refactor in one session, a test-writing task in another, and a research query in a third, then monitor progress and cost across all of them from one place.