Just-released Version 1.113 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor emphasizes improvements ranging from chat customizations to support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Copilot CLI and Claude agents.
Released March 25, VS Code can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac via the VS Code download webpage. VS Code 1.113 closely follows VS Code Versions 1.111 and 1.112 as part of Microsoft’s new plan to issue releases on a weekly schedule instead of monthly.
The chat customizations editor previewed in VS Code 1.113 has a centralized UI for creating and managing all chat customizations in one place. The editor organizes customization types into separate tabs, such as prompt files, custom instructions, custom agents, and agent skills. It also provides an embedded code editor with syntax highlighting and validation. Developers can create customizations from scratch or use AI to generate initial content based on a project, according to Microsoft.
