A new experimental setting, chat.agentHost.allowSignedOutWhenUsable, allows the Agents window to be opened without requiring GitHub sign-in. Previously, the Agents window opened with a GitHub sign-in prompt that could not be dismissed, blocking users whose machine could not reach github.com and users who do not interact with GitHub. Enabling this setting associates GitHub authentication with individual agents or models instead of the Agents window. In this release, this behavior only supports Claude. Support for Copilot with the user’s own model keys and Codex is planned for future releases.
VS Code 1.133 also brings auto-reload to HTML files opened in the integrated browser, refreshing them automatically when the file changes on disk. Developers can toggle automatic reload for individual browser tabs and configure the default with the workbench.browser.autoReloadOnFileChange setting.
Microsoft also introduced a setting to enable sticky scroll for prompts in the chat window. The chat.stickyScroll.enabled setting allows users to pin prompts to the top of the chat, similar to sticky scroll in the editor. Users then can select the pin to jump back to the prompt, or use the previous and next buttons beside it to step through prompts.
